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Holiday parties
A holiday party,
brought to life.
Trees around the bars, greenery along the cocktail deck, and a warm setting for dinner. One celebration, thoughtfully connected.
The Preserve rents plants and planters for conferences, trade shows and corporate celebrations in Boston. Add flowers for the tables, bars and welcome desk, with one point person and one coordinated proposal.
Past plant-rental clients include
A celebration that feels special. A conference that feels connected. See how thoughtful greenery brings each space to life.
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Holiday parties
Trees around the bars, greenery along the cocktail deck, and a warm setting for dinner. One celebration, thoughtfully connected.
Explore Our Design
Conferences & brand activations
A welcoming arrival, planted stages and layered lounges for an AI company valued at $17.5B. Big spaces, considered down to the last detail.
Every photo here comes from a real Preserve project — events, staged homes, and plant-styling details. No stock photos.




Complex filmed its conversation with Steph Curry in a plant-filled space selected by The Preserve. That same eye for scale, texture, and camera-ready detail guides every plant plan we create.
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Plants, flowers and one clear plan for your event. We help coordinate the look and confirm the receiving details before booking.
We drop off your plants and any floral arrangements at the agreed receiving point. Your team or venue handles movement inside the building and placement.
We help you choose plants, flowers and custom planter boxes around one brief, palette and budget. Share the floor plan and the look you want.
Your team returns rental items to the agreed collection point. We pick them up in the confirmed window. Your proposal identifies what to keep and what to return.
We're fully insured, and we send your venue whatever paperwork it needs without you having to ask twice.
Our collections bring life to every part of your event, from the entrance to the tables. Mix and match, and we'll help you put the look together.
Entrances · registration · anchors
Olive trees, ficus, and palms from six to twelve feet tall. These are the showpieces guests remember.
6–12 ft · ceramic or woven plantersBooths · lounges · bars
Monstera, bird of paradise, and kentia palms that make a plain booth or lounge feel warm and inviting.
2–7 ft · grouped 3–9 per vignetteMainstage · panels · press walls
Arrangements that frame your speakers nicely on stage and on camera, without stealing focus.
Custom per stage plot & shot listTables · soft seating · open houses
Ferns, succulents, and trailing pothos in matching pots. The finishing touches for a lounge or a staged home.
Tabletop–3 ft · vessel-matched setsTables · dinners · bars
Bud vases, centerpieces and bar arrangements that complement your plants and bring your event palette to the tables.
With plant rentals · quoted to your briefStages · lounge dividers · entrances
Frame a stage, define a lounge or bring greenery along a walkway. Wooden planter boxes made for your space and yours to keep. Pair them with our plant rentals for a coordinated look.
Made to order · with or without plant rentalsExplore planter boxesConvention floors, ballrooms, wharves, museums, and campuses. If your venue isn't here, it almost certainly still works — ask.
Delivering across
Send us your dates, your layout if you have one, and the look you're going for. A rough sketch or a few inspiration photos are plenty.
We send one itemized proposal with plant photos, any floral or planter-box details, suggested placements and clear pricing.
We drop off your plants and any floral arrangements at the agreed receiving point. Your team or venue handles movement inside the building and placement.
Your team returns rental items to the agreed collection point. We pick them up in the confirmed window. Your proposal identifies what to keep and what to return.
Multi-day shows at the Menino Convention & Exhibition Center and the Hynes. Booth packages, mainstage backdrops, and lounges built to survive a full exhibit run without a watering crew.
Company holiday parties, employee celebrations and client dinners. Bring warmth to the room with live plants, then add flowers for the tables and bar.
Activations, press days, launches, and pop-ups. You send the deck and the layout; we send a proposal with photos of the actual plants, not a mood board.
Plants that photograph well and hold through weeks of showings. We work your showing calendar, not a single event date.
We cover Boston, Cambridge, and the inner ring — from the Seaport and Back Bay across the Charles to Kendall Square, and west along Route 128 through Waltham and Burlington. Your plants are staged and acclimated in New England, so nothing travels further than it should before it reaches your venue.
Somewhere else in Greater Boston? Ask. We travel for the right event.
The things Boston planners ask us most, so you can scope your event without waiting on an email.
Yes. We can include bud vases, centerpieces and bar arrangements in your plant-rental proposal. Flowers are quoted for your quantities, palette and date. The $3,000 plant-rental minimum still applies, plus the one-time $500 delivery charge. We don’t offer flower-only orders. Your team handles placement.
Yes. We rent live plants for company holiday parties, office celebrations, employee appreciation events and corporate dinners. Think welcoming entrances, greenery around the bar and relaxed lounge areas. Share your date, venue and preferred look so we can confirm the plant selection, drop-off and pickup. Your team handles placement. See our corporate holiday party case study for a real example.
Yes. We cover Boston end to end — the Seaport, Back Bay, downtown, the Fenway, and the South End — plus Cambridge and Somerville across the Charles, Brookline, Newton, and Quincy, and the Route 128 corridor through Waltham and Burlington. Wider Greater Boston is available by arrangement. Tell us your venue and we'll confirm same day.
The Thomas M. Menino Convention & Exhibition Center — the BCEC — in the Seaport; the Hynes in Back Bay; hotel ballrooms from the Westin Boston Seaport District and the Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport to the Boston Marriott Copley Place, the Sheraton Boston, and the Fairmont Copley Plaza; the ICA, the MFA, the New England Aquarium, and the JFK Presidential Library; SoWa Power Station and the Cyclorama in the South End; Fenway Park and TD Garden; Encore Boston Harbor in Everett; and the Kendall Square and Route 128 campuses. Loading docks, freight elevators, and 5am load-ins are a normal part of our week.
Plant rental starts at a $3,000 minimum per event. Pricing is per plant for your agreed rental duration, with planters included. Delivery is a separate one-time $500 charge. Longer rentals are quoted for the full period from drop-off through pickup. Your itemized proposal confirms plant selection, quantities, service responsibilities and the total before booking. Most Boston conference and activation builds land at $3,000–$12,000. Full-floor, multi-zone, and multi-city programs can scale beyond $100,000.
Four to six weeks is ideal, and larger builds want more. Boston's calendar clusters hard — the March convention run at the Menino Center, the spring and fall conference seasons, September's citywide weeks, and December's holiday parties in the hotel ballrooms — so booked-out dates gather there. We can often still take rush requests — ask and we'll tell you straight away what's possible for your date.
Yes — the BCEC, officially renamed the Thomas M. Menino Convention & Exhibition Center. Exhibitor freight moves through the loading docks rather than the public entrances, and anything beyond hand-carry goes through your show's general contractor — so we work dock-and-drayage rules at the Menino Center and coordinate with your GC and any labor the venue requires. Send us your exhibitor manual and booth number with your request and we'll build the quote around the real dock times rather than guessing. The Hynes in Back Bay works the same way.
Yes, if we choose for it. Boston's humid summer is closer to a greenhouse than a desert — from June into mid-September, tropicals like ficus genuinely enjoy being outside. The watch-outs are wind and the calendar: the Seaport sits exposed to the harbor and gusts come hard off the water, so open terraces get low, heavy, ballasted vessels and wind-firm material, and Mediterranean plants like olives are a beautiful weekend choice rather than a humid-season resident. Once nights slide toward 50°F the tropicals come indoors, outdoor looks shift to hardy evergreens, and winter deliveries travel sleeved and blanketed between the truck and your door. Tell us whether the space is covered, exposed, or on the water and we'll spec accordingly. We don't staff on-site watering during events, so this choice matters and we make it up front.
Yes, and they're some of our favorite jobs. Activations, press days, pop-ups, and launches in lofts, museums, and warehouse venues all work the same way: send the layout and the look, we send a proposal with photos of the actual plants. We provide event plant rentals, with delivery, indoor placement and pickup responsibilities confirmed in your proposal.
Live plants, their agreed planters, drop-off and event-agreed pickup. Your team or venue handles receiving, interior movement, placement and return to the agreed collection point. Setup, installation, on-site planter-box assembly and daily on-site care are not included. We confirm the handoff and who will receive and place the plants before booking.
Yes. We're fully insured for every event and provide Certificates of Insurance on request. Send us your venue's insurance requirements — most Boston convention and campus venues have specific limits and additional-insured language — and we'll handle the paperwork directly with them.
We swap it. Our material is sourced and staged in New England, so replacements can come from inside the region.
Full payment is due upon receipt of your invoice. Your approved proposal and invoice set out the payment terms and any agreed event-specific exceptions.
Yes. Stagers and listing agents are a real part of our business. The same per-plant pricing covers a single statement tree in an entry or greenery through a whole listing, and we work to your showing calendar rather than a single event date.
Yes. Custom wooden planter boxes are made to order and yours to keep, with or without plant rentals. Standard rental planters remain included with your plants; custom boxes are purchased separately. Explore custom planter boxes →
Purchased boxes belong to you. Your team handles placement and arranges their removal after the event. We collect the rental plants and rental planters at the agreed collection point.
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Bring the room to life without buying plants you will need to care for afterward. We arrange collection when your event wraps up.
Share your venue, dates and the look you have in mind. Ask about plants, custom boxes or both. We’ll reply by email.
$3,000 plant-rental minimum · Planters included · $500 one-time delivery · tax additionalCustom wooden planter boxes are purchased separately and yours to keep.
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Flowers are available with plant rentals.
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