Beautiful plants for your Boston event. We handle the rest.
We rent plants for conferences, trade shows, launches, and corporate events across Boston and Cambridge. Your plants are staged, delivered, and installed by our New England growing partner — so they arrive fresh and acclimated, styled by the shop that's built stages for Meta, Hyundai, KPMG, and Reuters.
Past clients include
A look at our recent work.
Every photo here is real: our plants at events we've styled, staged homes, and our own shop. No stock photos.




Steph Curry filmed here.
When Complex filmed Steph Curry for an episode of 360 With Speedy, they shot the whole conversation inside our shop. We like to think that says something about how the place looks.
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What we take care of.
Your job is to tell us the room and the look. Ours is that the plants show up on time, hold up all week, and vanish before your move-out deadline.
Delivery & install
We work your venue's move-in window — dock times, freight elevators, early calls — and place every plant to your floor plan.
On-site styling
Before doors open we walk the room with you and move anything that isn't sitting right. Rooms always read differently once they're built.
Pickup & teardown
We collect everything inside your strike window. Nothing to store, nothing to return, nothing left on the floor for your GC to deal with.
Insured & papered
Fully insured, with COIs sent straight to your venue in whatever format it demands. Convention floors and corporate campuses are picky; we handle it.
Venues across Boston and Cambridge.
Convention floors, ballrooms, wharves, museums, and campuses. If your venue isn't here, it almost certainly still works — ask.
Delivering across
Our eye, grown close to your venue.
The Preserve is a design-led plant shop in San Jose. We don't truck plants 3,100 miles to Boston — your material is sourced, staged, and installed by our New England growing partner, drawing on southern New England's greenhouse belt, where nursery and greenhouse crops are the region's biggest agricultural sector, to our spec and our styling. You get fresh, regionally staged plants and a shorter replacement drive, with the same shop deciding what goes where.
Who we work with in Boston.
Conference & Trade Show Planners
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.
Biotech & Corporate Event Teams
All-hands, launches, offsites, and holiday parties across the Seaport, Kendall Square, and the Route 128 corridor. Recurring calendars welcome — we keep your spec on file.
Brand & Agency Teams
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.
Stagers & Listing Agents
Plants that photograph well and hold through weeks of showings. We work your showing calendar, not a single event date.
How it works, in four steps.
Tell us about the space
Dates, venue, booth or room number, and the look you want. A floor plan helps; a few inspiration photos are plenty if you don't have one.
Get a proposal
An itemized proposal with photos of the actual plants, suggested placements, and one clear price — including the Boston delivery and labor line.
We install & style
Our crew works your move-in window and fine-tunes the room with you before doors open.
We pick everything up
We strike and haul everything out before your move-out deadline. The plants go back into rotation, not a dumpster.
The Seaport to Kendall Square,
and west along Route 128.
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 by our New England growing partner, so nothing travels further than it should before it reaches your venue.
Somewhere else in Greater Boston? Ask. We travel for the right event.
We work the Bay Area out of our own San Jose shop, with written guides to how load-in, styling, and strike actually go at the rooms we are in most.
Boston questions.
The things Boston planners ask us most, so you can scope your event without waiting on an email.
Do you serve all of Greater Boston?
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.
Which Boston venues do you deliver to?
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.
How much does event plant rental cost in Boston?
Pricing is per plant, and one rental price covers your event for up to three days. There's a $3,000 minimum per event. Delivery and setup are billed separately based on your venue, your move-in window, and the size of the install. Most conference and activation builds land between $3,000 and $12,000; our largest build to date was $40,000 across a full convention floor.
How far ahead should I book a Boston event?
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.
Can you work at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center?
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.
Our event is outdoors — will the plants hold up in Boston weather?
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.
Do you do brand activations, launches, and production work?
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're an events business, not a set-dressing house — we rent and install rather than sell or build.
What does full service include?
Delivery, installation and styling to your floor plan, a walk-through with you before doors open, then full teardown and pickup after. You never lift, store, or return anything. The one thing we don't do is stay on site to water during your event, so we pick and prep plants that look their best for the whole rental.
Are you insured? Can you provide a COI for my Boston venue?
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.
What if a plant gets damaged during my event?
We swap it. Our material is sourced and staged through our New England growing partner, so replacements come from inside the region rather than from California.
How do deposits and payment work?
A 50% deposit up front so we can source the exact plants and planters your event needs, and the remaining 50% one week before the event. We invoice — no deposit is taken before you've seen and approved the proposal.
Do you rent plants for home staging in Boston?
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.
Still wondering something? Just ask →
Tell us about
the space.
If you'd like us on your Boston event, fill out the form or email us directly. We cover Boston, Cambridge, and the inner ring out to Route 128, with wider Greater Boston by arrangement.
Heads up: we have an order minimum of $3,000 per event.Prefer email?
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