The Preserve rents plants and planters for conferences, trade shows and corporate celebrations in San Diego. 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.
Holiday parties
Trees around the bars, greenery along the cocktail deck, and a warm setting for dinner. One celebration, thoughtfully connected.
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 halls, bayfront ballrooms, research campuses, and coastal lawns. If your venue isn't listed, 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.
Company holiday parties, employee celebrations and client dinners. Bring warmth to the room with live plants, then add flowers for the tables and bar.
Multi-day shows at the Convention Center and Del Mar. Booth packages, registration moments, mainstage backdrops, and lounges that survive a full exhibit run without a watering crew.
Investor days, symposia, lab openings, and recruiting events across Sorrento Valley, Torrey Pines, and UTC. Low-light material for breakouts, statement trees where the photos happen.
Bayfront ballrooms, Coronado lawns, and North County resorts. We work your service entrances and banquet timelines, and we're used to venue paperwork.
La Jolla, Del Mar, and Coronado listings. Plants that photograph well and hold through weeks of showings, on your calendar rather than a single date.
We cover San Diego County end to end. Your plants are grown and staged in Southern California, so nothing travels further than it should before it reaches your venue.
Somewhere else in Southern California? Ask. We travel for the right event.
The things San Diego 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 — Downtown and the Gaslamp, Coronado, La Jolla and Torrey Pines, Mission Valley, Point Loma, the South Bay, North County through Del Mar, Encinitas, Carlsbad, and Oceanside, and north to Temecula. The desert is available by arrangement.
The San Diego Convention Center, Del Mar Fairgrounds, Petco Park and the Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, the bayfront conference hotels including the Manchester Grand Hyatt, Marriott Marquis, and Hilton Bayfront, Hotel del Coronado, Balboa Park and Liberty Station venues, Scripps Seaside Forum and The Lodge at Torrey Pines in La Jolla, and corporate campuses across Sorrento Valley and UTC.
Yes. We work to the show's published move-in and move-out schedule and coordinate with your general contractor and any labor the venue requires. Send your exhibitor manual and booth or hall number with the request and we'll quote against the real dock times instead of estimating.
Yes, and San Diego's research corridor is a big reason we're here. Multi-day scientific meetings mean plants have to look identical on day three as on day one with no watering crew, and often need to work in windowless breakout rooms. We spec low-light-tolerant material for interior sessions and save the statement trees for registration, keynote, and the reception.
Weighted, low-profile, and salt-tolerant material. Bayfront terraces, Coronado lawns, and La Jolla bluffs get real afternoon wind, so we use heavy planters and structurally sturdy plants — olive, hardy palms, succulents, and dense ferns — rather than tall soft-stemmed tropicals that whip and topple. Tell us how exposed the site is and we'll spec and weight accordingly.
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 San Diego conference and reception builds land between $3,000 and $10,000; full-floor and multi-space programs can scale beyond $100,000.
Four to six weeks is ideal and larger builds want more. San Diego's calendar spikes hard — Comic-Con week, the big life-sciences and tech conferences, and the summer wedding and gala season all compress capacity citywide. If your date is inside one of those windows, earlier is genuinely better. Rush requests are often still possible; just ask.
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 issue Certificates of Insurance on request. Send us the venue's requirements — the Convention Center, the Port district venues, and the resorts each have their own limits and additional-insured wording — and we'll file it with them directly.
We swap it. Our Southern California material is sourced and staged inside the region, so a replacement is a short drive rather than a day's haul.
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. The same per-plant pricing covers a single statement tree at an entry or greenery throughout a listing, and we work to your showing calendar rather than a single date. La Jolla, Del Mar, and Coronado listings are the usual ask.
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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