Category: Holidays

  • Here’s how to extend the life of your Easter blooms

    Even after the Easter Bunny has visited and the last eggs are hunted, Easter plants will bring beauty and color into your home. In fact, you can make the flowers last a lot longer by following some easy steps. What’s more, after your bulb plants – such as daffodils, hyacinths, tulips, crocus and narcissus –…

  • Getting hip to the hop: Cable-11 visits corporate complex for Easter

    Leave the hiding to the Easter Bunny. We love showing off all of the Easter activity taking place this month at Royer’s. Visiting our corporate complex in Lebanon today was Blue Ridge Cable 11 News of Ephrata, specifically reporter Peter Taraborelli and photographer John Hershey. They spoke about hyacinths, lilies, hydrangea and other flowers and…

  • Forcing hyacinth bulbs for Easter

    Did Easter sneak up on you this year? Being on March 31 [this post originated in 2013], it is earlier than usual. As a florist, we don’t have the luxury of being surprised by the calendar. Planning and logistics are the lifeblood of our business; they are fundamental to giving our customers high-quality products and…

  • Decorate hyacinth basket at free Royer’s Kids Club event on March 16

    Royer’s Kids Club will get the Easter season hopping with a free event on March 16 at all Royer’s stores. Children ages 5 to 12 will be able to decorate a hyacinth basket for Easter. They can take the plant home and watch it bloom. Participants also will receive a balloon. Time slots are available…

  • Love comes to town

    With less than one week to go until Valentine’s Day, roses arrived en masse this morning at Royer’s distribution center in Lebanon. We captured some of the many sights as employees prepped the flowers for use by the central design department, which will create thousands of arrangements for the holiday. Meanwhile, vans arrived from Royer’s…

  • Local florist bests big delivery sites in Yahoo! ‘Savvy Spender’ comparison

    Yahoo!’s “Savvy Spender” set out to review four of the top floral delivery sites: 1800Flowers.com, ProFlowers.com, Teleflora and FTD. But at the end of the day — or approximately 2:40 of this video clip — it was a local florist that outshone the big online retailers. “To see how a local florist compares to the…

  • From South America with love

    Come mid-winter in Pennsylvania, the thought of soaking up the sun’s rays and 70-degree temperatures in South America sounds like a great vacation. But for Tom Royer, traveling to Bogota, Colombia, is work. Tom is senior vice president and chief operating officer for Royer’s Flowers, which his grandparents, Hannah and Lester Royer, started 76 years…

  • Poinsettia Care Tips for This Christmas and Next!

    Keeping your poinsettia looking great this Christmas takes two easy steps, but did you know with a few more steps you can have a wonderful poinsettia next Christmas as well? This Christmas 1. When the surface of the soil is dry to the touch, water the plant. 2. Keep the poinsettia in a room with…

  • Christmas Preparations in Full Swing

    It’s the busiest place south of the North Pole. Our Lebanon headquarters is receiving some 30,000 Pennsylvania-grown poinsettias this holiday season. Meanwhile, our design team is decorating poinsettias and handcrafting thousands of holiday arrangements. Take a look at some of the photos we took as we prepare for the Christmas season.