Author: Neal

  • Royer’s Kids Club making patriotic arrangement at Veterans Day event on Nov. 2

    The Royer’s Kids Club will salute Veterans Day with a free event on Nov. 2 in all Royer’s Flowers & Gifts stores. Children ages 5 to 12 will have an opportunity to make a patriotic arrangement (left) that includes an American flag. Participants also may decorate a coloring page for the annual Holidays for Heroes…

  • Sizing up six new arrangements for fall

    Several sure signs of the season: cooler temperatures, candy corn on grocery store shelves and the arrival of our fall menu. Emily Mallis, Royer’s marketing manager, shared her insight on six arrangements making their debuts. 2820/Foliage Terrarium: A tilted pedestal container gives a unique, updated look to our everyday dish garden while retaining its vintage…

  • Royer’s Flowers donates $1,000 to Safe Berks emergency shelter in Reading

    Royer’s Flowers & Gifts has donated $1,000 to the nonprofit Safe Berks in Reading. The funds are earmarked for Safe Berks’ emergency shelter, which serves victims of domestic violence or sexual assault and their dependent children. The shelter can accommodate as many as 50 people for 30 days and offers professional counseling and educational group…

  • And the winning arrangement name is … Cottage Garden

    A quote from the French impressionist painter Claude Monet adorns SaraJane Barto’s refrigerator: “I must have flowers, always and always.” Barto, of Carlisle, takes those words to heart, buying flowers for others and herself. “And I love gardening,” she said. “Couldn’t do without flowers.” That passion for flowers prompted Barto to submit the winning entry…

  • She won a Royer’s Kids Club contest in first grade, now Emily Swanger is heading to college

    It’s not hard to still see the first grader in Emily Swanger, although she’s much taller now and long ago outgrew her “Cool Chick” T-shirt. Emily had worn the shirt the last time we photographed her, on the day in November 2007 that Royer’s delivered a bouquet of carnations to her at South Lebanon Elementary…

  • Royer’s Flowers food drive collects nearly 1,400 pounds for food banks

    Royer’s Flowers & Gifts’ annual food drive collected 1,381 pounds of nonperishable items for the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank and Helping Harvest, formerly Greater Berks Food Bank. The Royer’s Stems Hunger event, which took place June 22-July 6, has collected more than eight tons of food since it began in 2011. Royer’s East York store…

  • Red Lion sixth-grader wins Royer’s Kids Club birthday card design contest

    Madalyn Yorgy of Red Lion, York County, is a creative 11-year-old. “She loves crafts and theater,” said her mother, Rachel. “She loves to sing.” Madalyn, who will be entering sixth grade, shoots movies, draws and colors adult coloring books. “You name it,” Rachel said, “and she makes it.” That experience no doubt contributed to her…

  • We need your help naming this arrangement; enter our contest by Aug. 15

    We’re giving the current name of this new arrangement a green thumbs down. And that explains why Royer’s annual name-the-arrangement contest is appealing to the public to rename what is now known as the Garden Box design. The person who submits the winning name will receive this arrangement (retail value $54.99) as a prize. The…

  • Royer’s Kids Club offers free back-to-school event Aug. 17

    We’ll celebrate the start of a new school year with a free Royer’s Kids Club event on Aug. 17. Children ages 5 to 12 will have an opportunity to create an arrangement featuring lavender and yellow daisy pompons, limonium, and a back-to-school stick-in in an orange diamond-cut vase. Time slots are available at 10 a.m.…

  • Behind the scenes: Royer’s expanded direct ship program serves 48 states

    Royer’s Flowers has come a long way in the 80-some years since Hannah Royer grew African violets on her windowsill in Lebanon, Pa., that she sold at a local garment factory and at area farmer’s markets. Today, while our brick-and-mortar stores and online presence serve customers in seven counties in south-central and eastern Pennsylvania, Royer’s…