Beautiful plants for your San Francisco event. We handle the rest.
The Preserve rents plants for conferences, trade shows, galas, and brand activations across San Francisco. We deliver into your venue's move-in window, style to your floor plan, and strike on time — from Moscone halls and Embarcadero piers to Presidio lawns and SoMa lofts.
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What we take care of.
San Francisco venues are strict about windows, docks, and paperwork. Your job is to tell us the room and the look — ours is that none of the rest becomes your problem.
Delivery & install
We schedule around your venue's real 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 strike inside your move-out window, including overnight strikes when the schedule calls for it. Nothing left on the floor.
Insured & papered
Fully insured, with Certificates of Insurance sent straight to the venue in the format it requires. San Francisco venues are specific about this; we handle it.
Venues across San Francisco.
Convention halls, piers, ballrooms, museums, warehouses, and rooftops. If your venue isn't listed, it almost certainly still works — ask.
Delivering across
A South Bay shop that works San Francisco every week.
We'll say the obvious part out loud: our shop is in San Jose, not the city. That drive is ours to solve, not yours. We stage San Francisco orders the night before, leave early enough that traffic is a non-event, and plan every load-in against the venue's real dock window rather than an optimistic one. The upside of a shop with room to grow things is that your plants are held, watered, and groomed by the same people who style them — and if something needs swapping mid-run, replacements come off our own floor.
Who we work with in the city.
Conference & Trade Show Planners
Multi-day shows at Moscone and the city's convention floors. Registration statements, mainstage backdrops, and lounges built to survive a full exhibit run without a watering crew.
Agencies & Producers
You own the show file; we're one clean line in it. A proposal with photos of the actual plants, confirmed delivery windows, one invoice, and one person answering your emails the whole way through.
Corporate Event Teams
All-hands, launches, holiday parties, and client dinners across SoMa, Mission Bay, and the Financial District. Recurring calendars welcome — we keep your spec on file.
Nonprofits & Gala Committees
Auction rooms, entries, and stage framing that photograph well and read from the back of a ballroom. Tell us the budget and we'll tell you honestly what it buys.
How it works, in four steps.
Tell us about the event
Dates, the venue and room, and the look you want. A floor plan or production schedule helps us quote against real dock windows instead of guessing.
Get a proposal
An itemized proposal with photos of the actual plants, suggested placements, and one clear price.
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 inside your move-out window, day or night. The plants go back into rotation, not a dumpster.
San Francisco questions.
What planners and producers ask us about working events in the city.
Do you deliver to San Francisco if your shop is in San Jose?
Yes, and we do it constantly — San Francisco is one of our busiest markets. Our shop is in San Jose, roughly fifty miles south, which means we stage city orders the night before and leave early enough that traffic never touches your call time. Delivery is billed by scope and venue, and it's quoted up front rather than added later.
Which San Francisco venues do you work?
Moscone North, South, and West; the Embarcadero piers including Pier 27; Fort Mason Center; the Palace of Fine Arts; Union Square and SoMa hotel ballrooms; museums like SFMOMA and Yerba Buena; warehouse and rooftop spaces across Dogpatch, the Design District, and the Mission; the Presidio; and corporate floors throughout SoMa, Mission Bay, and the Financial District. If your venue isn't on that list, ask — it almost certainly still works.
Can you provide a Certificate of Insurance for my San Francisco venue?
Yes. We're fully insured and send COIs directly to the venue or your production company ahead of load-in, with whatever additional-insured language is required. San Francisco venues tend to be specific about wording and lead time; send us the requirements with your request and we'll take care of the paperwork.
What does plant rental cost for a San Francisco event?
Pricing is per plant, and one rental price covers your event for up to three days. There's a $3,000 minimum per event, and delivery is billed separately based on the venue, the window, and the size of the install. Most city conferences and activations land between $3,000 and $12,000; our largest build to date was $40,000 across a full convention floor.
Can you work a tight move-in window or an overnight strike?
Yes — that's normal for city work. San Francisco venues run on scheduled dock times, shared freight elevators, and strict move-out deadlines, and plenty of our installs happen before six in the morning or after a show closes at night. Send the production schedule and we'll plan delivery and strike against the real times.
Do you coordinate with general contractors and venue operations?
Yes. For exhibit-floor work we slot into your general contractor's schedule and follow the show's delivery and material rules. Tell us who's running the floor and who our venue contact is, and we'll handle the coordination directly rather than routing it back through you.
Will the plants last a multi-day event without watering?
Yes. We spec hardy material for indoor event light, then water and groom everything before it leaves the shop, and one rental price covers up to three days. We don't staff on-site watering during events; for longer runs, ask about a mid-event refresh visit.
Can one order cover a Moscone booth and an offsite dinner the same week?
Yes, and during big conference weeks it usually should. One proposal can cover the show floor plus a dinner at a SoMa restaurant, a hotel ballroom, or a rooftop nearby. One team, one invoice, one point of contact.
How far ahead should we book a San Francisco event?
Four to six weeks is ideal, and the big spring and fall conference weeks book out earliest. If your date is sooner than that, ask anyway — we'll tell you straight away what's possible rather than leaving you waiting.
What if a plant gets damaged mid-event?
We swap it. We keep healthy backups in rotation at the shop and schedule replacements around your event hours so the fix isn't visible to your guests.
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. No deposit is taken before you've seen and approved the proposal.
Still wondering something? Just ask →
Tell us about
the space.
A booth, a ballroom, or a whole pier — fill out the form or email us directly and we'll reply with next steps and a proposal timeline.
Heads up: we have an order minimum of $3,000 per event.Prefer email?
friends@shopthepreserve.com