Mary Colannino’s eighth grade science class at Bain Middle School now has a freshly planted tree dedicated to them after the Cranston conservation commission, along with National Grid, put in two Kwanzan Pink Flowering Cherry trees on Friday.

The two trees were donated by National Grid and planted by the students in Colannino’s class as well as Steven Pilz of the Cranston conservation commission and Rick DeGrandpre, the city’s tree warden.

The trees, according to Pilz, grow dark green leaves in the summer that turn bronze in the fall, then grow double pink profuse spring flowers. The trees will grow up to 25 feet high with a spread of up to 20 feet, he said. Pilz also told the students that the trees are currently around the same age as them, so as they grow up they’ll always be the same age as the trees now sitting outside of Bain.

The tree planting at Bain was part of National Arbor, held annually on the last Friday of April.