Author: Neal

  • Royer’s exclusive: Corazon rose

      The poet and writer Gertrude Stein was wrong. A rose is a rose is a rose, she said. If she meant to suggest that all roses are alike, then she was wrong. We’d like to introduce you to the Corazon rose. It’s unlike any other rose we sell. Don’t get us wrong, we love…

  • Schreiber Pediatric teen camp visits Royer’s corporate complex

    We were thrilled to be a stop once again for Schreiber Pediatric Rehab Center‘s teen camp, which provides participants with an opportunity to work on social skills and learn life skills during outings in the community. The children toured much of Royer’s corporate complex in Lebanon on Aug. 22. The teen camp has visited Royer’s for…

  • Kids club members celebrate summer, look ahead to Oct. 26 event

    Nat King Cole gave us “Those Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer.” The Royer’s Kids Club added “daisy” to the rhyming pattern with its Aug. 17 event. Available in each of our stores, the free event gave children ages 5 to 12 an opportunity to make a Sweet Summer Daisy Bowl arrangement. The kids club’s…

  • Orla Egolf wins Royer’s Kids Club birthday card design contest

    Paula Egolf is a professional artist, her acrylic paintings having been exhibited at juried shows, galleries and museums. Apparently she’s also an inspiration to her 10-year old granddaughter Orla Egolf (photo). Orla, a fourth-grader in the School District of Lancaster, is the winner of Royer’s Flowers & Gifts’ 2013 birthday card design contest. Her prize…

  • In search of the best rose

    “Where will I wander and wonder? Nobody knows But wherever I`m going I`ll go In search of a Rose” –From the song “In Search of a Rose” by The Waterboys   Just after Labor Day, Tom Royer is going in search of a certain type of rose. “We don’t want a rose,” said Tom, Royer’s…

  • Sisters Annie and Maddie celebrate birthdays at Royer’s

    Melissa Castellano is expecting her third child, a boy, in August. When he turns 5, he can join the Royer’s Kids Club. “If his sisters have anything to say about it,” Melissa quipped. Sisters Annie, 10, and Maddie, 6, are veterans of the kids club, although the family’s ties to Royer’s run even deeper than…

  • Best of the West (Shore): Royer’s tops Sentinel survey

    For the second year in a row, the readers of the Carlisle Sentinel newspaper have voted Royer’s Flowers as the best florist on the West Shore. The newspaper announced the results of its 11th annual “Best of West Shore” survey in the Aug. 4 print edition. Readers cast thousands of ballots, submitted by mail and…

  • ‘Royer’s Stems Hunger’ food drive collects nearly 2,500 pounds for area food banks

      Our third-annual “Royer’s Stems Hunger” food drive collected 2,486 pounds of non-perishable items for the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank and the Greater Berks Food Bank. From June 21 to 29, Royer’s asked customers to drop off donations at any of our 17 Royer’s in Berks, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon and York counties. In return,…

  • Savor summer at free Royer’s Kids Club event Aug. 17 in all stores

    It’s getting to be back-to-school time, but the Royer’s Kids Club isn’t letting go of summer easily. For the next free kids club event, on Aug. 17, children ages 5 to 12 will have an opportunity to make a Sweet Summer Daisy Bowl arrangement. Participants also will receive a balloon. Time slots are available at…

  • Christmas in July: poinsettias take root

      Retailers and consumers might count down the number of shopping days left until the holidays. At Esbenshade’s Greenhouses Inc. in Lancaster County, it’s a calendar of growing days. One of the 100 biggest greenhouse operations in the United States, family-owned Esbenshade’s is a significant grower of poinsettias. Royer’s Flowers & Gifts is one of…