Author: Neal

  • Mount Joy resident’s ‘Harvest Beauty’ wins Royer’s Flowers name-the-arrangement contest

      When she first learned how to use email through her local library, Karen Good said, she was told to select three words for her address that represented things she liked. One of them was “rose,” which reflects her affinity for flowers. Good, of Mount Joy, Lancaster County, now has good reason to be fond…

  • Royer’s at 85: An internet pioneer

    This is part of a series of occasional blog posts about important events in Royer’s history as the company marks its 85th anniversary in 2022. The internet is so entrenched in our lives that it’s easy to forget that only a generation ago everything was new. Online access was mostly via dial-up service using phone…

  • Royer’s Flowers contest asks customers to name new pumpkin arrangement

    Candy corn is so popular that it seems to arrive in grocery stores earlier every year. Royer’s Flowers & Gifts’ annual name-the-arrangement contest is getting a head start on fall, too. The new all-around arrangement features a ceramic pumpkin, measures 12 inches high and 10 inches wide and comprises carnations and daisy poms in fall…

  • Allison Rivera wins Royer’s Flowers birthday card design contest

    Allison Rivera, 9, enjoys playing any game with a ball, including tennis with a neighbor. But regardless of whether the East Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, resident ever masters her forehand or backhand, she’s already a skilled freehand artist. “She loves to draw, loves to color,” said her mother, Debbie. “She always has.” And she’s gotten…

  • Royer’s at 85: From flower grower to importer

    This is part of a series of occasional blog posts about important events in Royer’s history as the company marks its 85th anniversary in 2022. In 1937, Lester and Hannah Royer moved their young family from downtown Lebanon to a new home on the outskirts of the city. Their son Ken was 6 at the…

  • Royer’s at 85: Finding our niche

    This is part of a series of occasional blog posts about important events in Royer’s history as the company marks its 85th anniversary in 2022. Ken Royer, the son of Royer’s Flowers founders Hannah and Lester Royer, wrote the book on running a successful flower shop, both in a figurative sense and quite literally. His…

  • One creative child will win a flower delivery in Royer’s annual birthday card design contest

    Like the start of summer break itself, Royer’s Flowers & Gifts’ annual birthday card design contest presents a blank canvas. Royer’s is challenging children ages 5 to 12 to design an email birthday card that all Royer’s Kids Club members will receive in the year ahead. The artist with the winning entry will receive a…

  • Royer’s at 85: Expansion to Ephrata

    This is part of a series of occasional blog posts about important events in Royer’s history as the company marks its 85th anniversary in 2022. In 1991, a reporter for the Lancaster New Era newspaper asked then-Royer’s president Ken Royer how the company had been able to grow from its flagship location in Lebanon to…

  • Royer’s at 85: Planting roots in Lebanon

    This is part of a series of occasional blog posts about important events in Royer’s history as the company marks its 85th anniversary in 2022. Like any great success story, that of Royer’s Flowers & Gifts began humbly in 1937. Hannah (Mom) Royer grew African violets on the windowsill of her Lebanon home. A neighbor…

  • Where are they now? Former Royer’s Kids Club members Alex and Marisa Heisey

      If Marisa Heisey ends up at a college in western Pennsylvania, the Conestoga Valley High School junior will follow in the footsteps of her older brother, Alex. He is a sophomore at Grove City College, an hour north of Pittsburgh. It wouldn’t be the first time the close siblings have walked similar paths. A…