Author: Neal

  • Royer’s Columbia store joins parade to kick off Mountville’s bicentennial celebration

    Happy 200th Birthday to Mountville, Lancaster County! The borough kicked off its weeklong bicentennial celebration with a parade on Aug. 2. Our Columbia store, which serves Mountville, entered Royer’s classic 1969 Ford Econoline delivery van in the procession. Store manager Patti Barclay and her team walked beside the van and handed out 400 carnations to…

  • With addition of PinnacleHealth, Royer’s serving 11 area hospital gift shops

    In advance of opening West Shore Hospital in May, PinnacleHealth System sought a new floral vendor that could keep up with the growing volume of orders from its three hospital boutique gift shops. Royer’s Camp Hill store won a multi-year contract to service the new hospital as well as the established Harrisburg Hospital and Community…

  • Ephrata’s Julia Longenecker wins Royer’s Kids Club birthday card design contest

    Ephrata Middle School seventh-grader Julia Longenecker is a swimmer and a basketball player. She loves dogs and reading. The daughter of John and Sandy Longenecker is pretty fond of drawing, too. “She draws a little bit of everything,” Sandy said. “She likes to draw pictures of animals, flowers.” In fact, one of Julia’s flower drawings…

  • Royer’s tops ‘Best of Lebanon Valley’ for fourth year in a row

    For the fourth time in as many years as the Lebanon Daily News has recognized the “Best of the Lebanon Valley,” the newspaper’s readers have voted Royer’s their favorite florist. Royer’s has always called Lebanon home: Our family-owned business started there in 1937 and operates its flagship store at 810 S. 12th St., Lebanon, and…

  • 5 things you should know about caring for annual plants

    So you bought annual plants in a container at your local florist, garden center or home-improvement store. Annual plants – such as petunias, geraniums and begonias that complete their life cycles in one year – pose perennial challenges once you bring them home. Here are five things you should know about caring for your annuals:…

  • Royer’s brings annual food drive to Fox 43 Morning News

    It’s summertime and the living is easy, the song lyric goes. But life isn’t easy if there isn’t enough food to eat at home. Royer’s annual food drive — Royer’s Stems Hunger — began in 2011 as a way to address some of that need. The food drive, which this year runs June 20-28, benefits…

  • 2014 Royer’s Kids Club birthday card design contest runs through July 12

    For children, summer is for getting out of school, swimming, going on vacation. And entering the 2014 Royer’s Kids Club birthday card design contest, which is open to children ages 5 to 12 in Berks, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon and York counties. The deadline to enter is July 12. The winning design will be featured…

  • Royer’s Kids Club event June 21 to help kick off annual food drive

    Royer’s annual food drive – Royer’s Stems Hunger – will take place June 20-28. The Royer’s Kids Club will help out with a special event on June 21 for children ages 5 to 12. They are asked to donate a non-perishable food item as the price of admission and to bring an empty food can…

  • Royer’s Stems Hunger food drive returns June 20-28

    Royer’s annual food drive – Royer’s Stems Hunger – will return June 20-28 to collect non-perishable food items for the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank (see video below) and the Greater Berks Food Bank. Customers are asked to bring nonperishable food donations to any Royer’s Flowers & Gifts store and place them in a collection barrel.…

  • A thorny problem is solved by our annual May-June rose sale

    “It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.” ― Maud Hart Lovelace, author Indeed, June is National Rose Month, which coincides conveniently with the fact that roses are abundant this time of year. That abundance explains why Royer’s has its rose sale every June.…