The annual Home, Garden and Flower Show at Fryeburg Fairgrounds will celebrate its sixth year from Friday, May 18 to Sunday, May 20.

Last year, more than 8,000 visitors attended the three-day event. Show owner-producer Karla Ficker saw the record-breaking crowd as an indicator of the future.

“This show has become a destination event that attracts visitors from the White Mountains and Western Maine communities and far beyond,” Ficker said.

The Garden Marketplace will be represented by seven regional garden centers. The marketplaces are set up outdoors and offer locally grown and zone hardy perennials, annuals, vegetable seedlings, shrubs, soil enhancers, and garden accessories.

This year a seventh building will house the workshops and seminars that go on throughout the show. Paul Parent, host of the “Paul Parent Garden Club” radio show and the local cable-access TV show “All Things Growing,” and Cyndy Tibbets from Hummingbird Farm, are among the featured presenters covering such topics as organics, landscaping ideas, waking up the garden for spring, maintaining your gardens and much more.

Chefs from resorts such as The Balsams and The Mount Washington Hotel & Resort, and favorite restaurants like the 1785 Inn and Bellini’s Restaurante will be joined by chefs from The Tamworth Inn, The Everyday Gourmet and other restaurants for the “Meet the Chefs” cooking series.

To meet the presenting chefs at the show, visit the show’s Web site at www.homegardenflowershow.com.

Parents looking to find ways to encourage their children to eat better can join Lise-Lotte Nichols, executive chef and owner of Healthy Habits Culinary School in Sanford, as she shares the stage with children and teaches them how to prepare foods they love.

The Chick Home Center of North Conway, N.H. and Bay Street Discount of Ossipee sponsor “Meet the Chefs”, N.H. Chick’s will build the kitchen with cabinets and marble countertops and Bay Street will Viking appliances.

The aquatic element of the show, introduced in 2006, has also expanded with more boats, more docks and more water toys.

“The show brings hundreds of vendors together in one convenient, easily accessible location. It is an especially timely event because of its emphasis on the garden and landscape material,” said Ficker.

The show occupies six acres of the Fryeburg Fairgrounds with outside displays and seven major exhibit halls. For more information about the 2007 Home, Garden & Flower Show, visit www.HomeGardenFlowerShow.com, or contact Ficker by e-mail at info@homegardenflowershow.com, or at (800) 359-2033 or 935-2845.