Plant rentals for events · Boston

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 in New England, delivered and installed by our crew — so they arrive fresh and acclimated, styled by the team that's built stages for Meta, Hyundai, KPMG, and Reuters.

Fully insured Projects from $3,000 to $100K+ Seaport to Kendall Square
The Preserve's former shop interior, with peach walls, boucle chairs, and tall plants
From The Preserve portfolioPlant styling in our former shop.

Past clients include

Meta Splunk Cisco Cathay Innovation Reuters OpenAI Google Encord QuantumScape KPMG Hyundai
The work

A look at our recent work.

Every photo here comes from a real Preserve project — events, staged homes, and plant-styling details. No stock photos.

Two outdoor event bars with backlit bottle shelves at dusk, a tall fiddle-leaf fig between them and ferns at their bases
Event barsFerns and a fiddle-leaf fig between two bars at an evening reception.
Dense corner grouping of bird of paradise, monstera, dracaena, and snake plant in ceramic pots
The collectionBirds of paradise, monstera, and dracaena, ready for their next event.
Kentia palm in a dark planter finishing a staged living room with framed art and a marble coffee table
StagingA kentia palm in a staged living room.
Corporate event floor with fiddle-leaf figs framing the stage and lounge seating
ConferenceFiddle-leaf figs framing the stage at a corporate all-hands.
Potted trees and ferns frame two outdoor bars beneath a fabric canopy at dusk.
Trees and low foliage frame the outdoor bars at a Bay Area corporate gathering.

From The Preserve portfolio

From reception to the bar.

Featured installation: San Francisco Bay Area

For a corporate leadership gathering, The Preserve coordinated an order itemizing 296 plants, plus separate special-order lots, across reception and hospitality spaces. See the outdoor bars, cocktail deck and indoor planting in this completed Bay Area project.

Full service, start to finish

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.

No. 1

Delivery & install

We work your venue's move-in window — dock times, freight elevators, early calls — and place every plant to your floor plan.

No. 2

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.

No. 3

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.

No. 4

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.

The collections

Organized the way you plan a space.

We group our plants by what they do for a room, not by botanical name. Mix and match, and we'll help you put the look together.

Statement Trees

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 planters

Lush Tropicals

Booths · 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 vignette

Stage & Keynote

Mainstage · panels · press walls

Arrangements that frame your speakers nicely on stage and on camera, without stealing focus.

Custom per stage plot & shot list

Lounge & Staging Accents

Tables · 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 sets
Where we work

Venues across Boston and Cambridge.

Convention floors, ballrooms, wharves, museums, and campuses. If your venue isn't here, it almost certainly still works — ask.

The convention centerThe Thomas M. Menino Convention & Exhibition Center — the BCEC — in the Seaport: Halls A, B, and C, the Grand Ballroom, and the meeting levels, worked to your GC's move-in schedule.
Hynes Convention CenterBack Bay's Hynes — exhibit halls, ballroom, and auditorium, connected under one roof to the Prudential Center and its hotels.
Seaport hotelsThe Westin Boston Seaport District on the convention campus and the Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport, home to Boston's largest hotel ballroom.
Back Bay ballroomsThe Boston Marriott Copley Place, the newly renovated Sheraton Boston, and the Fairmont Copley Plaza on Copley Square.
Museums & the waterfrontThe ICA on Harbor Shore Drive, the MFA in the Fenway, the New England Aquarium on Central Wharf, and the JFK Presidential Library on Columbia Point.
The South EndSoWa Power Station's vaulted hall and the Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts.
Stadiums & arenasFenway Park's year-round event spaces and TD Garden above North Station, plus game-day suites at both.
Encore Boston HarborThe Everett resort on the Mystic — its Grand Ballroom and the seasonal waterfront lawns.
Corporate campusesKendall Square, the Seaport towers, and Route 128 through Waltham and Burlington — all-hands, launches, and client days on campus.

Delivering across

SeaportBack BayDowntownFort PointSouth EndFenwayWest EndCharlestownDorchesterCambridgeSomervilleBrooklineNewtonQuincyWalthamBurlingtonWider Greater Boston by arrangement
The process

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.

10 minutes of your time

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.

$3,000 event minimum

We install & style

Our crew works your move-in window and fine-tunes the room with you before doors open.

You approve, we adjust

We pick everything up

We strike and haul everything out before your move-out deadline. The plants go back into rotation, not a dumpster.

Nothing for you to clean up
Service area

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 in New England, so nothing travels further than it should before it reaches your venue.

The Seaport & the waterfrontThe convention center, the Seaport hotel ballrooms, the ICA, Fort Point, and the Aquarium on Central Wharf.
Back Bay & the South EndThe Hynes, the Copley Square ballrooms, SoWa Power Station, and the Cyclorama.
Cambridge & SomervilleKendall Square's campuses and the rooms across the Charles.
The wider ringRoute 128 through Waltham and Burlington, Newton and Brookline, Quincy to the south, and Encore Boston Harbor in Everett.

Somewhere else in Greater Boston? Ask. We travel for the right event.

Multi-city programs

One plant palette, one styling standard, and one point of contact across the cities below.

Good to know

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 Boston conference and activation builds land at $3,000–$12,000. Full-floor, multi-zone, and multi-city programs can scale beyond $100,000.

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 in New England, so replacements can come from inside the region.

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. Events fewer than 20 calendar days away are paid in full at booking, since sourcing and scheduling start immediately. We invoice — no payment 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 →

Nothing here is disposable. Every plant goes home to its greenhouse, recovers, and goes back out again.

Renting is reusing. One ficus can appear at dozens of events over its lifetime, and nothing ends up in a dumpster when yours is over.

Get in touch

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. The Preserve's reception desk beneath an arch of ferns and pothos, with a neon sign on a peach wall