Linda Gehres holds a columbine plant at the 30th anniversary Plant Swap she helped start at the Carbon County Environmental Center, Jim Thorpe. Columbine plants have a tall stalk and a flower that hangs down. Bees and hummingbirds love them. The Jim Thorpe woman knows the names of the plants and grows many at her home in Jim Thorpe. She suggested the idea of a plant swap at the Carbon County Environmental Education Center to Naturalist Jeanie Carl, to find homes for all the extra plants she had from cleaning up her gardens and flower beds. JAMES LOGUE JR/.SPECIAL TO THE TIMES NEWS

Linda Gehres of Jim Thorpe, left, offers information on one of the plants to Nicole Michlovsky, also of Jim Thorpe, at the 30th anniversary Plant Swap at the Carbon County Environmental Center in Jim Thorpe. Gehres brought columbine, purple cone flowers, tiger lilies, violets, ajuga, and many more perennials. Gehres was happy to explain to the visitors what they can expect from each type of plant and how to take care of them.