Colorblends House & Spring Garden

Colorblends House & Spring Garden COLORBLENDS collaborated with designer Jacqueline van der Kloet of the Netherlands to create a spring display garden showing what's possible with flowerbulbs.
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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.

Happy first Day of Fall. Almost time to plant bulbs!
09/21/2025

Happy first Day of Fall.
Almost time to plant bulbs!

Curious to Try Something New?Tulips and daffodils may be the spring classics, but there is a larger world of uncommon bu...
09/19/2025

Curious to Try Something New?
Tulips and daffodils may be the spring classics, but there is a larger world of uncommon bulbs worth considering. They’re often underappreciated, but with their unique shapes and textures, they can add depth and diversity to your spring display.

If you have garden areas inhospitable to planting tulips or daffodils, uncommon bulbs can be a great alternative. Several specialty bulbs tolerate, or even thrive, in shade or damp soil.

Browse our collection of fall-planted specialty bulbs and bring fresh character to your spring garden.
https://www.colorblends.com/spring-flowering-bulbs/specialty/

Late summer is peak blooming time for native and garden perennials, herbs and lots of annuals. Pollinators love a divers...
09/12/2025

Late summer is peak blooming time for native and garden perennials, herbs and lots of annuals. Pollinators love a diverse menu.

Bulbocodium daffodils are very short and mostly a cup. Their petals are reduced to little spikes and their grassy foliag...
09/05/2025

Bulbocodium daffodils are very short and mostly a cup. Their petals are reduced to little spikes and their grassy foliage makes them easy to disguise among perennials after they bloom.
Mary Poppins is creamy white and Oxford Gold is bright yellow. They look good together or on their own.
They start blooming in April, along crocus, grape hyacinths, scillas, snowdrops and other daffodils.

Evolution of a bed. Spring into Summer.
07/26/2025

Evolution of a bed. Spring into Summer.

07/26/2025

Monarch butterfly feeding on swamp milkweed, growing on a wet spot in The Garden.

Alliums are gone to seed but you can still use them as fillers with your potted annuals or let them dry in place.
06/21/2025

Alliums are gone to seed but you can still use them as fillers with your potted annuals or let them dry in place.

06/20/2025

It’s a wrap. More bulbs will be added to the meadow in the Fall.

Time to cut the grass. Daffodil foliage turned brown and fed the bulbs for next year’s flowers.
06/20/2025

Time to cut the grass.
Daffodil foliage turned brown and fed the bulbs for next year’s flowers.

06/17/2025

Off season visitor. Eating the hostas. Time to go.

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893 Clinton Avenue
Bridgeport, CT
06604

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About the House & Garden

The Colorblends House & Spring Garden will be open April 1- May 12, 2020. The spring garden is located on the south side of the house and occupies about half an acre. More than 40,000 flowerbulbs have been planted since fall 2014. These plantings, the handiwork of Dutch designer Jacqueline van der Kloet in collaboration with COLORBLENDS wholesale flowerbulbs, are designed to show what is possible with bulbs. Whether you want to brighten your front walk, backyard or vegetable garden, whether you want to plant 200 bulbs or 2000, the COLORBLENDS spring garden will show you how to create a great spring display. 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. A new fruit tree has been planted. An innovative compost pile screens the vegetable garden and provides a haven for birds and insects. 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 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. The goal is slow, steady progress towards restoration. During the spring while the garden is open the House will also be open with a pop-up gallery featuring the work of 9 to 10 local artists. The House is open everyday from 10am to 4pm from April 1st to May 12th. We look forward to seeing you next spring.