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 plantersWe rent plants for Convention Center shows, life-sciences meetings, galas, and coastal receptions across San Diego County. Your plants are grown and staged in Southern California, dropped off for your receiving team — selected by the team whose work has framed events for Meta, Hyundai, KPMG, and Reuters.
Past clients include
Every photo here comes from a real Preserve project — events, staged homes, and plant-styling details. No stock photos.





From The Preserve portfolio
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.
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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Beautiful plants, a clear handoff, and pickup arranged around your event. We confirm the receiving details with you before booking.
We drop off your plants at the agreed time and receiving point. Your team or venue handles movement inside the building and placement.
We help you choose plants and planters that suit the room. Share your floor plan and the look you want; your receiving team brings the plan to life.
Your team returns the plants to the agreed collection point. We pick them up in the confirmed window and bring them back into the rental rotation.
Fully insured, with COIs filed directly with your venue. The Convention Center, Port district sites, and the resorts each want it their own way.
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.
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 setsConvention halls, bayfront ballrooms, research campuses, and coastal lawns. If your venue isn't listed, it almost certainly still works — ask.
Delivering across
Dates, venue, hall or room, and the look you want. A floor plan helps; a few inspiration photos are plenty if you don't have one yet.
An itemized proposal with photos of the actual plants, suggested placements, and one clear price — San Diego delivery and labor included as its own line.
We drop off your plants at the agreed time and receiving point. Your team or venue handles movement inside the building and placement.
Your team returns the plants to the agreed collection point. We pick them up in the confirmed window and bring them back into the rental rotation.
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.
One plant palette, one consistent look, and one point of contact across the cities below.
The things San Diego planners ask us most, so you can scope your event without waiting on an email.
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 non-taxable charge. Longer rentals are quoted for the full period from drop-off through pickup. Your itemized proposal confirms plant selection, quantities, applicable plant-rental taxes, 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, custom-planter 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.
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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.
If you'd like us on your San Diego event, fill out the form or email us directly. We cover San Diego County from the South Bay through North County.
Heads up: we have an order minimum of $3,000 per event.Prefer email?
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