Nature, Curated: What Live Foliage Can Accomplish
For more than two decades, Temporary Tropics has shaped botanical environments across Florida’s most distinctive venues and events. Today, we operate at the intersection of horticulture, design, and hospitality—providing live foliage rentals, biophilic event design, florals, entrances, backdrops, entertainment, and elevated experiences.
Yet live foliage remains at the heart of our work.
Beyond a List of Plants
Most plant-rental companies begin by describing what they rent: palms, tropical plants, topiaries, trees, planters, and hedge walls.
Temporary Tropics can own a more valuable territory by explaining what live foliage accomplishes.
It creates arrival. It manages movement. It corrects scale. It introduces privacy. It supports branding. It improves photographs. It transforms transitional spaces that might otherwise feel unfinished.
A pair of sculptural palms can establish the entrance to a ballroom. Tall trees can give an expansive convention hall the proportion it needs. Hedge walls can screen service areas, form a private lounge, or guide attendees toward registration. Layered greenery can soften a technology-heavy stage, while living plants around a branded backdrop make photographs feel dimensional and complete.
The plant is the medium. The experience it creates is the purpose.
Live Foliage Designed Around the Space
Our catalogue includes tropical palms, architectural greens, flowering plants, variegated foliage, topiaries, scented botanicals, seasonal trees, and designer planters in a range of sizes and finishes.
But no two installations should feel identical.
We consider ceiling height, sightlines, guest traffic, venue architecture, lighting, branding, photography, and the emotional tone of the gathering. A plant selected for an executive stage must behave differently from foliage used around a resort pool, outdoor reception, or intimate dinner.
Every selection must earn its place.
From Design Through Installation
Temporary Tropics provides more than plant delivery. Our process may include venue review, botanical recommendations, scaled mockups, planter selection, top dressing, delivery, installation, on-site styling, maintenance for multiday programs, and timely removal.
Our team arrives with clean, healthy, presentation-ready foliage and completes each installation with the discipline expected by Florida’s leading hotels, convention centers, event planners, destination-management companies, and private clients.
We serve corporate and social events throughout South Florida, Central Florida, West Florida, and North Florida.
A Living Solution
Live foliage can welcome, direct, conceal, divide, frame, soften, and transform. It can make a temporary event feel established and an expansive venue feel intimate.
That is the distinction at Temporary Tropics. We do not begin by asking where plants can be placed. We begin by asking what the space needs to accomplish.
Then we let nature do what it does beautifully.
