Garden show to offer music, talks, plant sale

The Bangor Garden Show is open 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. Children’s Room hours are 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday. Premiere events at the 2001 show will be: Celebrity Roundtable-Book Signing at 8 p.m. Friday with Roger Swain, Ralph Snodsmith and Mrs. Greenthumbs, with a wine-only cash bar available; “Singing Above the Angels,” special children’s choirs Saturday evening, including the Bangor Regional Children’s Chorale; and a cameo appearance by the newly formed Maine Orchid Society at “Odes to Spring,” the Penobscot District Flower Show on the mezzanine of the Bangor Auditorium.

The show will conclude with a plant sale at 5 p.m. Sunday, when exhibiting landscapers will literally “pull up roots” and offer their prize plantings for sale.

The Bangor Garden Show is fortunate to have several nationally known lecturers on its lineup this year:

. Mrs. Greenthumbs – Author of “Mrs. Greenthumbs: How I Turned a Boring Yard into a Glorious Garden and How You Can, Too” and “Mrs. Greenthumbs Plows Ahead,” Greenthumbs has been a regular contributor to “Live! Regis and Kathie Lee” and has also had her own gardening show in Canada.

. Roger Swain – The co-host of PBS “Victory Garden” television show, Swain is also author of “Earthly Pleasures: Tales from a Biologist’s Garden” and “Groundwork: A Gardener’s Ecology.”

. Ralph Snodsmith – This will be the first visit to Bangor for Snodsmith, the host of a national radio show. Broadcast Sunday mornings in Bangor on WVOM, “Garden Hotline” offers the latest in gardening tools and methods.

. Barbara Damrosch – Author of “The Garden Primer” and “Theme Gardens,” Damrosch has also been a correspondent on the PBS series “Victory Garden” and has co-hosted, with husband Eliot Coleman, “Gardening Naturally” on The Learning Channel. The pair owns Four Seasons Farm, an experimental market garden, in Harborside.

Call Ticketmaster at 207-990-4444, or purchase tickets at the Bangor Auditorium and Civic Center or from the Convention and Visitors Bureau at 115 Main St., Bangor.

Proceeds from the Bangor Garden Show benefit the Ellen Louise Payson Landscape Horticulture Scholarship Fund.