Programs · Grow With Me™

Because childhood
deserves roots.

A single, hand-selected tree, planted in second spring — established enough to thrive, young enough to grow alongside the child it is planted for.

The Premise

We do not plant trees.
We plant time.

Childhood is not a series of milestones. It is a quiet, steady, unmistakable accumulation — kindergarten, the first lost tooth, the first sleepover, the first heartbreak, the first time the car pulls out of the driveway with them behind the wheel.

Grow With Me™ honors that journey the way it actually happens — not in isolated, fleeting moments, but in cumulative growth. Each year, the tree is taller. Each year, the canopy is wider. Each year, the photograph in front of the tree is different and the same.

This is less about planting a tree, and more about giving time itself a tangible, permanent place to land and be observed.

From the Founder · J Core

I blinked.

My children grew up while I was building a business I hoped would give them a better life.

If I could have anything back, it wouldn't be another meeting.

It would be another afternoon.

So plant a tree the year they're born. Stand beside it every year. Neither of them will stop growing — but one will always remind you how quickly the other did.

— J Core, Founder · Still in the dirt

The Anatomy

One tree.
One lifetime.

Grow With Me™ is built around a single, hand-selected specimen — and the structured care that ensures it outlives the planting.

Specimen Selection

Hand-selected by a certified arborist.

We choose for proven health, inherent resilience, and suitability to the site. The Grow With Me tree is not from a catalog — it is selected the way a portrait subject is selected, against the property and the family it is being planted for.

The Planting

Sized to thrive, sized to grow with.

Established enough to survive the first season unattended; young enough that the canopy will visibly change every year for the next twenty. Installed to the same standards as every Scapes specimen — soil amended, drainage cut, irrigation set.

Year One Check-In

The first year is the year that decides.

An arborist returns at month four and month ten. Soil tested. Watering adjusted. Pruning, if any, performed in person. The first year is the year the tree either takes hold or it doesn't. We do not leave it to chance.

The Marker

A small, considered piece of brass.

A discreet ground marker, set permanently at the base of the trunk — the tree and the name it carries, cut into brass. Not a plaque, not a billboard. Forever after, anyone who walks past knows what this tree is and who it was named for.

The Annual Portrait

A photograph, every year, on the same day.

On the planting anniversary, someone stands where they stood last year — same composition, same framing, same light if you can hold it. Your photographer or ours. We’ll remind you when the day comes around, the same way we come back for the maintenance. The portrait set, over time, becomes the most honest record of growth a family will keep.

The Years

Emma Rose.
Live oak, 2026.

Year seven. Same frame, same light, every anniversary.

The plaque is set the year they are born. The tree does the rest — and every year, the photograph beside it tells you exactly how long you have loved them.

The first portrait is a sapling and a child who cannot yet reach the lowest branch. By grade school the canopy has closed over the marker. By the time she leaves for somewhere else, the trunk is wider than she is, and the whole record sits in one set of frames: the same tree, the same light, a life measured in growth instead of dates.

And later — the tree wider than she is.

Nothing about it is complicated. A tree, a name in brass, and somebody who comes back every year to photograph it and take care of it. What accumulates is not landscaping. It is a record nobody else in this business is keeping.

The Investment

What it costs.
And where it goes.

Two parts, and no surprises. One payment to put the tree in the ground and see it through its first year — then a single charge each year on the planting anniversary, for as long as you want the record kept.

Paid once

The Establishment

From $3,650
One-time — the tree, planted and seen through year one.

  • A hand-selected specimen treeTen to twelve feet, three-inch caliper — chosen with you, against the property and the child.
  • Full installationSoil amended, drainage cut, irrigation set — to the same standard as every Scapes planting.
  • An engraved brass marker, set permanentlyThe tree and the name it carries, cut into brass at the base of the trunk. Every passer-by, from now on, knows what this tree is and who it was planted for.
  • Two first-year check-insAn arborist returns at month four and month ten. The first year is the year that decides.
Each anniversary

The Annual

$475 a year
Charged on the planting anniversary — set once, never chased.

  • The annual portraitWe remind you when the day comes. Your photographer or ours — same frame, same light, every year.
  • A health and pruning passAn arborist tends the tree on the same visit. It is cared for, not just photographed.
  • The growing record, keptEach year's portrait is added to the set and delivered to you. The archive is yours.

A tree planted this spring, carried through grade school — seven years of one childhood.

Typical estimated cost of a Grow With Me tree

To establishPaid once, at planting
$3,650
Each anniversaryRenews automatically
$475/yr
Or prepay the seven yearsVariable plans available — we set the terms together
Let's talk

The Promise

We do not plant trees.
We plant time.
Because childhood deserves roots.

Begin Grow With Me™

Plant the first tree of a childhood.

Grow With Me™ begins with a conversation about who the property is for — and the milestones worth marking. We walk the property, then we site the first tree.

Begin a conversation
Because childhood
deserves roots.

A single, hand-selected tree, planted in second spring — established enough to thrive, young enough to grow alongside the child it is planted for.

The Premise

We do not plant trees.
We plant time.

Childhood is not a series of milestones. It is a quiet, steady, unmistakable accumulation — kindergarten, the first lost tooth, the first sleepover, the first heartbreak, the first time the car pulls out of the driveway with them behind the wheel.

Grow With Me™ honors that journey the way it actually happens — not in isolated, fleeting moments, but in cumulative growth. Each year, the tree is taller. Each year, the canopy is wider. Each year, the photograph in front of the tree is different and the same.

This is less about planting a tree, and more about giving time itself a tangible, permanent place to land and be observed.

From the Founder · J Core

I blinked.

My children grew up while I was building a business I hoped would give them a better life.

If I could have anything back, it wouldn't be another meeting.

It would be another afternoon.

So plant a tree the year they're born. Stand beside it every year. Neither of them will stop growing — but one will always remind you how quickly the other did.

— J Core, Founder · Still in the dirt

The Anatomy

One tree.
One lifetime.

Grow With Me™ is built around a single, hand-selected specimen — and the structured care that ensures it outlives the planting.

Specimen Selection

Hand-selected by a certified arborist.

We choose for proven health, inherent resilience, and suitability to the site. The Grow With Me tree is not from a catalog — it is selected the way a portrait subject is selected, against the property and the family it is being planted for.

The Planting

Sized to thrive, sized to grow with.

Established enough to survive the first season unattended; young enough that the canopy will visibly change every year for the next twenty. Installed to the same standards as every Scapes specimen — soil amended, drainage cut, irrigation set.

Year One Check-In

The first year is the year that decides.

An arborist returns at month four and month ten. Soil tested. Watering adjusted. Pruning, if any, performed in person. The first year is the year the tree either takes hold or it doesn't. We do not leave it to chance.

The Marker

A small, considered piece of brass.

A discreet ground marker, set permanently at the base of the trunk — the tree and the name it carries, cut into brass. Not a plaque, not a billboard. Forever after, anyone who walks past knows what this tree is and who it was named for.

The Annual Portrait

A photograph, every year, on the same day.

On the planting anniversary, someone stands where they stood last year — same composition, same framing, same light if you can hold it. Your photographer or ours. We’ll remind you when the day comes around, the same way we come back for the maintenance. The portrait set, over time, becomes the most honest record of growth a family will keep.

The Years

Emma Rose.
Live oak, 2026.

Year seven. Same frame, same light, every anniversary.

The plaque is set the year they are born. The tree does the rest — and every year, the photograph beside it tells you exactly how long you have loved them.

The first portrait is a sapling and a child who cannot yet reach the lowest branch. By grade school the canopy has closed over the marker. By the time she leaves for somewhere else, the trunk is wider than she is, and the whole record sits in one set of frames: the same tree, the same light, a life measured in growth instead of dates.

And later — the tree wider than she is.

Nothing about it is complicated. A tree, a name in brass, and somebody who comes back every year to photograph it and take care of it. What accumulates is not landscaping. It is a record nobody else in this business is keeping.

The Investment

What it costs.
And where it goes.

Two parts, and no surprises. One payment to put the tree in the ground and see it through its first year — then a single charge each year on the planting anniversary, for as long as you want the record kept.

Paid once

The Establishment

From $3,650
One-time — the tree, planted and seen through year one.

  • A hand-selected specimen treeTen to twelve feet, three-inch caliper — chosen with you, against the property and the child.
  • Full installationSoil amended, drainage cut, irrigation set — to the same standard as every Scapes planting.
  • An engraved brass marker, set permanentlyThe tree and the name it carries, cut into brass at the base of the trunk. Every passer-by, from now on, knows what this tree is and who it was planted for.
  • Two first-year check-insAn arborist returns at month four and month ten. The first year is the year that decides.
Each anniversary

The Annual

$475 a year
Charged on the planting anniversary — set once, never chased.

  • The annual portraitWe remind you when the day comes. Your photographer or ours — same frame, same light, every year.
  • A health and pruning passAn arborist tends the tree on the same visit. It is cared for, not just photographed.
  • The growing record, keptEach year's portrait is added to the set and delivered to you. The archive is yours.

A tree planted this spring, carried through grade school — seven years of one childhood.

Typical estimated cost of a Grow With Me tree

To establishPaid once, at planting
$3,650
Each anniversaryRenews automatically
$475/yr
Or prepay the seven yearsVariable plans available — we set the terms together
Let's talk

The Promise

We do not plant trees.
We plant time.
Because childhood deserves roots.

Begin Grow With Me™

Plant the first tree of a childhood.

Grow With Me™ begins with a conversation about who the property is for — and the milestones worth marking. We walk the property, then we site the first tree.

Begin a conversation