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, delivered and installed by our crew — styled by the team that's built stages for Meta, Hyundai, KPMG, and Reuters.
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Every photo here comes from a real Preserve project — events, staged homes, and plant-styling details. No stock photos.




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You tell us the room and the look. We make sure the plants arrive on time, look the same on day three as day one, and are gone before your strike deadline.
We work your venue's move-in window — Convention Center dock times, resort service entrances, early calls — and place every plant to your floor plan.
Before doors open we walk the room with you and adjust anything that isn't sitting right. Built rooms always read differently than plans.
We collect everything inside your strike window. Nothing to store, nothing to return, nothing left behind for your GC.
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.
Our crew works your move-in window and fine-tunes the room with you before doors open.
We strike and haul everything out before your move-out deadline. The plants go back into rotation, not a dumpster.
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 styling standard, 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.
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 venue, move-in window, and install size. 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.
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. We don't staff on-site watering during your event, so we choose and prep plants that hold their look for the full rental.
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.
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, and nothing is due until you've seen and approved the proposal.
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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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.
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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