Trade show build
The PGA Show Booth
A full topiary environment built for four days on the PGA Show floor in Orlando — and designed to look untouched on the last afternoon.
EventPGA Show, January 2026
LocationOrange County Convention Center, Orlando
FootprintTwelve-foot pergola
MaterialsPreserved and artificial foliage
DurationFour days, unattended
The brief
The PGA Show fills 1.1 million square feet with more than a thousand exhibitors. A stand in that much competition has one job before it has any other: stop somebody who was walking somewhere else.
The second job is less obvious and harder. Whatever stops them on the first morning has to still be doing it on the last afternoon, with nobody tending it in between — which rules out cut flowers and live planting before the design starts.
A trade stand has to survive being handled all day. That is the same test the preserved range is built to pass.
On the floor
What went into the booth.
A green wall to be seen across the hall, sculpture for height, and one object people wanted to be photographed with.
The build
Preserved green wall, sculpted topiary, faux palms and drapery framing the space like a terrace. Every element is modular, because setup and teardown are part of the brief at a show.
The green wall
Accented with florals and lit warm from within — the focal point, and the thing visible from across the hall over the tops of other stands.
The turf chair
A full-size seat upholstered in artificial turf. It is the piece that made the booth work: people queued to sit in it, and a queue is a conversation.
Everything on that stand ships and re-ships without a greenhouse at either end — the artificial range is built for exactly that.
A stand needs one object people want to be pictured with. Everything else is the setting for it.
The photo moment
The chair did the work.
Preserved and artificial foliage is what makes a four-day build possible: it holds colour without water or daylight, stays crisp under convention-hall lighting, and packs down without wilting. If you exhibit, or want a photo moment at a launch or a venue, start at custom topiary for events or call 866-306-1020.
Specification
What it’s made of.
- Green wall
- Preserved foliage with florals and warm internal lighting
- Topiary
- Sculpted pieces for height, including our 60″ cone-and-ball juniper
- Seating
- Full-size chair upholstered in artificial turf
- Framing
- Faux palms and drapery
- Footprint
- Twelve-foot pergola, scales to the space
- Upkeep
- None for the length of the show
- Logistics
- Modular throughout for setup and teardown
- Adapts to
- Launches, activations, showrooms and venues, not just shows
From the same workshop
Where does a piece like this come from?
The same frames, foliage and finishes that built this one — sold ready-made or commissioned to your drawing.
Planning something like this?
Tell us what you’re picturing.
Send a photo or a sketch with your dimensions and date. We come back with a design, a price and a delivery date — then build it in our own workshop.
- 4–10 weekstypical build time
- Any scaletabletop to 40 feet
- US & Canadashipping and install
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