Beautiful plants for your Philadelphia event. We handle the rest.
We rent plants for conferences, trade shows, launches, and corporate events across Philadelphia and the Main Line. Your plants are sourced, delivered, and installed by our Mid-Atlantic growing partner — so they arrive fresh and local, 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 Philadelphia.
Convention halls, ballrooms, museums, landmark club rooms, 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 2,900 miles to Philadelphia — your material is sourced, staged, and installed by our Mid-Atlantic growing partner, in the region that calls itself America's Garden Capital, to our spec and our styling. You get local, fresh plants and a shorter replacement drive, with the same shop deciding what goes where.
Who we work with in Philadelphia.
Conference & Trade Show Planners
Multi-day shows at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Booth packages, mainstage backdrops, and lounges built to survive a full exhibit run without a watering crew.
Corporate & Life-Sciences Event Teams
All-hands, launches, offsites, and holiday parties across Center City, University City, and King of Prussia. 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 Philadelphia 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.
Center City to King of Prussia,
and across the Delaware.
We cover Philadelphia end to end, the Main Line and the western suburbs out to King of Prussia, and South Jersey across the river, with Wilmington down I-95. Your plants are sourced and staged by our Mid-Atlantic partner, so nothing travels further than it should before it reaches your venue.
Somewhere else in the Philadelphia region? 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.
Philadelphia questions.
The things planners ask us most, so you can scope your Philadelphia event without waiting on an email.
Do you serve all of the Philadelphia area?
Yes. We cover Philadelphia end to end — Center City, Old City, University City, Fishtown, Fairmount, and the Navy Yard — plus Manayunk, the Main Line, and Conshohocken out to King of Prussia, across the river to Camden and Cherry Hill, and down I-95 to Wilmington. Tell us your venue and we'll confirm same day.
Which Philadelphia venues do you deliver to?
The Pennsylvania Convention Center's exhibit halls and Grand Hall; the convention hotels, from the Marriott Downtown across the skybridge to the Loews in the PSFS Building and the Sheraton's Liberty Ballroom; the Parkway museums — the Franklin Institute, the Barnes, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Bellevue and the Cescaphe ballrooms; Memorial Hall in Fairmount Park; the Fillmore, Brooklyn Bowl, and Punch Line in Fishtown; Cherry Street Pier on the Delaware; and corporate campuses from University City to the Navy Yard and King of Prussia. Loading docks, freight elevators, and 5am load-ins are a normal part of our week.
How much does event plant rental cost in Philadelphia?
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 Philadelphia event?
Four to six weeks is ideal, and larger builds want more. Philadelphia dates cluster around the Convention Center's big runs — the Auto Show at the turn of January into February, Flower Show week in early spring, the fall citywide conventions, and PAX Unplugged alongside December's holiday-party season — 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 Pennsylvania Convention Center?
Yes — the exhibit halls, the meeting rooms, and the Grand Hall in the old Reading Terminal train shed. We work to the show's move-in and move-out schedule and coordinate with your general contractor and any labor the venue requires, including the Center's marshaling-yard check-in on Bluegrass Road before trucks are dispatched to the Vine Street docks. 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.
Our event is outdoors — will the plants hold up in Philadelphia weather?
In summer, better than almost anywhere. Philadelphia summers are hot and humid, and that's exactly what tropicals like ficus and palms want — warm nights and greenhouse air — so they genuinely thrive outdoors from June through early September, as long as leaves that grew up indoors are kept out of harsh afternoon sun. It's the Mediterranean material we deploy carefully: olives love the heat but sulk in sustained humidity, so they're a great event-weekend choice rather than a season-long terrace resident. Once September nights slide toward 50°F the tropicals come back inside, and in the winter months outdoor decor means hardy evergreens while anything tender works the interior — cold-month deliveries travel sleeved and blanketed between the truck and your door. Tell us whether the space is covered or exposed 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 Philadelphia venue?
Yes. We're fully insured for every event and provide Certificates of Insurance on request. Send us your venue's insurance requirements — most Philadelphia convention, museum, 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 Mid-Atlantic material is sourced and staged locally, 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 Philadelphia?
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 Philadelphia event, fill out the form or email us directly. We cover Philadelphia, the Main Line and King of Prussia, and South Jersey, with Wilmington and the wider region by arrangement.
Heads up: we have an order minimum of $3,000 per event.Prefer email?
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