Colorblends House & Spring Garden
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COLORBLENDS collaborated with designer Jacqueline van der Kloet of the Netherlands to create a spring display garden showing what's possible with flowerbulbs.
The House and Spring Garden are open every spring for six weeks from April 1 to around May 8th. The Colorblends House & Spring Garden is open to the public from March 29 to May 11, 2025. The Spring Garden is open 7 days a week from dawn to dusk. The House is open Tuesday thru Sunday, 10am to 4pm. Please follow us here for up-to-date flowering reports. The Garden
The spring garden is located on the south side of the house and occupies about half an acre. More than 50,000 flowerbulbs have been planted since fall 2014. These plantings, the handiwork of Dutch designer Jacqueline van der Kloet in collaboration with COLORBLENDS, are designed to show what is possible with spring flowering bulbs. The gardens also serve as a U.S. trialing ground for new varieties and blends for Colorblends. Whether you want to brighten your front walk, backyard or vegetable garden, the COLORBLENDS spring garden will show you how to create a great spring display. In spring the garden is a living catalog/website of Colorblends offerings. The plantings exhibit a range of choices in spring-flowering bulbs and give ideas on where to plant them and how to maintain a bulb display year after year. The garden also shows how you can attract birds, bees and other wildlife to your yard. Aging trees, which provide habitat and food for many birds and small animals, have been spared. Fruit trees have been planted. An innovative compost pile screens the vegetable garden and provides a haven for birds and insects. Admission to the garden is free. The House
COLORBLENDS purchased the house, a fine example of Colonial Revival architecture, from Nationstar Mortgage LLC and Fannie Mae in a short sale on December 4, 2013, five years after it was put on the market. The house was built in 1903 for Albert S. Wells, general superintendent of the Bridgeport Malleable Iron Company. It is set among other beautiful houses in the Stratfield historic district in Bridgeport. The long road to restoration. COLORBLENDS has brought the house back to its former glory. Initial steps included opening up three porches that were enclosed over the years and clearing out the basement, which had been divided into nine small rooms during a period when the house was used for private tutoring. Other previous uses of the house were as offices for an architect and before that a doctor who also lived there with his family. Fortunately, many original elements, such as the woodwork on the stairs and several stained glass windows, have been spared over the years. Replacing them would have been prohibitively expensive, if not impossible. During the spring while the garden is open the House will also be open with a pop-up gallery featuring an exhibition name La Belle Époque. There is a $5 suggested donation for the House. We look forward to seeing you this spring.
09/08/2026
Bring on the bulbs! Come meet Trish and Diego from Colorblends Wholesale Flowerbulbs at Oliver Nurseries for “Bulb Primer”—a talk on the development of the modern bulb industry and how you can incorporate the latest trends in blends and bloom sequencing to your own designs.
📅 Saturday, September 19, 2026
⏰ 10:00 AM
💵 $0.00
📍Oliver Nurseries, 1159 Bronson Road, Fairfield, CT
Link to sign up in the comments.
Mowing this week slightly disturbed this well hidden, underground bumblebee nest in the middle of the lawn. When I first approached nest closely with the camera the bees didn’t attack but actually all scattered and dissapeared as if if to collectively say, there’s no nest here, you’re looking in the wrong place.
08/21/2026
Glad it’s summer/fall! Visitors to the COLORBLENDS display garden this AM.
07/20/2026
Summertime. Quiet in the garden with lots of local wildlife like raccoons, opossum, birdlife, insect life and these two. If you have these passing through your yard remember that they won’t touch daffodils. One of the few green things they won’t touch.
05/14/2026
What a spring.
Thank you to the hundreds of you who came from near and far to see the Colorblends display gardens this year and to enjoy the spring art exhibit from Ursa Gallery inside the house.
You brought your kids, your parents, your friends, your dogs (the well-behaved ones), your watercolors, your cameras, and your questions, and we've enjoyed having you. Thank you for showing up, and we'll see you next year.
Spring 2027 can't come soon enough! In the meantime, keep an eye on this page for a couple more posts that show the progression of the blooms. And if you want to learn more about bulbs and see more pretty pictures year-round, don't forget to follow the Colorblends Wholesale Flowerbulbs account.
Did you enjoy the bulbs at our display garden this year? You can order your own for fall planting. Sign up for the Colorblends catalog to see what's available this year. The catalog will be mailed in July. Get on the mailing list here: https://shop.colorblends.com/mailing-list
05/10/2026
Happy Mother's Day! Today's the last day of our season. Alliums and Spanish Bluebells are coming into bloom.
The house is open today until 4pm to view the spring art exhibition. If you're looking for somewhere wonderful to spend an hour, the garden and the art are waiting for you. (📸 Note: picture taken on May 8, 2026.)
We'll see you soon. 893 Clinton Ave, Bridgeport, CT 06604.
05/08/2026
Heads up! The Colorblends display garden and Ursa Gallery spring art exhibition close for the season this Sunday, May 10. If you've been meaning to come, this is the weekend.
Final bloom report for May 8, 2026. 📸
Alliums are starting in the front walkway, not yet blooming but in bud. There are a lot of tulips that still look good, despite the rains this past week. Camassia is starting and Spanish bluebells are blooming! Quiet Riot tulips are peak, daffodil Sir Winston Churchill is on its way out but is quite fragrant, and Poeticus Recurvus is blooming all across the front lawn.
The house is open Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 10am to 4pm. Free admission, no tickets, no reservations. Just show up, wander, take photos, ask questions.
Bring your mom on Sunday. Bring your camera. Bring a friend who keeps saying, “I really should come see that someday.” Someday is NOW.
See you there, 893 Clinton Ave, Bridgeport, CT 06604
05/04/2026
Happy Monday! 📸 May 4, 2026.
Here are some early-morning shots from the Colorblends House and Spring Garden. You may need to look a little closer to see the blooms as the season starts to wind down, but there is still beauty everywhere. Many daffodil varieties are still holding strong, and the tulip blends have enjoyed the cooler weather.
Mark your calendar: This Sunday, May 3rd, from noon-3pm, come to the Colorblends House & Spring Garden for a coffee tasting from URSA Roastery.
893 Clinton Ave
Bridgeport, CT 06604
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