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.
