Category: Shop Local

  • Easter Basket Ideas for Adults

    Easter Basket Ideas for Adults

    Why should the kids have all the fun? Surprise your bestie or significant other with a grown-up Easter basket this year to celebrate the season! What to include in an adult Easter basket: Chocolate Every Easter basket, no matter the age of the recipient, should include chocolate. It’s not Easter without a little indulgence in…

  • Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas for Men

    Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas for Men

    Many think of Valentine’s Day as a day for men to do romantic gestures for the women in their lives, but they deserve to be celebrated too. To help you find the perfect gift for your significant other, we’ve compiled a Valentine’s Day Gift Guide for Men: Flowers Men like flowers too. Just because it’s…

  • Flowers and Coffee – What’s Not to Love?

    Flowers and Coffee – What’s Not to Love?

    We recently collaborated with our Lebanon location’s neighbor, The Clay House Cafe, to highlight some of our arrangements and a selection of their drinks from their current menu. They gave us a list of some of their current drinks from coffee to cream sodas and we chose flower arrangements we believed paired well with them.…

  • Plants that will bring you luck in the New Year

    Plants that will bring you luck in the New Year

    A new year means a whole 365 days of new experiences and opportunities await.  Of course, everyone wants to have a prosperous and successful year. According to certain beliefs, there are plants that can help with that.  Growing and keeping these plants in your environment could supposedly make 2025 your luckiest year yet: Peace Lily…

  • Ultimate Christmas Gift Guide Part 2

    Ultimate Christmas Gift Guide Part 2

    Welcome to part 2 of our Christmas Gift Guide where we’re helping you find something for everyone on your list.  Part 1, which features our first 12 categories, was posted on Dec. 16. With just a few days left until Christmas, we hope the rest of this guide eases some of your Christmas shopping anxiety.…

  • Get to know: Ephrata delivery driver Mike Rohrer

    Mike Rohrer, who joined the Ephrata store in January as a driver, was delivering flowers to a woman at the Brethren Village retirement community in Lititz. “It’s my birthday,” the woman said expectantly, “and you’re going to sing to me, aren’t you?” “I said, ‘You bet I am!” Rohrer recalled. “How could you pass that…

  • Mum grower Frysville Farms near Ephrata is almost as old as America

    There’s a bar in the East Village of Manhattan that opened its doors in 1854. A sign in the window greets patrons young and old with a pointed message: “We were here before you were born.” In northern Lancaster County, Pa., Frysville Farms bests the bar by three-quarters of a century, tracing its origin to…

  • Royer’s introduces fresh gathered bouquets

    Do it yourself doesn’t mean you have to go it alone. A case in point: Royer’s new fresh gathered bouquets. Available in 13 different options (with the promise of more to come), the bouquets sell for $19.99 or $29.99 including delivery. They arrive in a brown craft paper sleeve tied with raffia, giving the package…

  • Valentine’s Day: from field to front door

    Whether you’re a planner or procrastinator, online or in-store shopper, you can expect the same high-quality product and customer service from Royer’s. We really shine at Valentine’s Day. It’s our busiest time, and we enjoy the challenge of rising to the occasion. If a customer buys flowers once per year, it’s probably for Feb. 14.…

  • A Guy’s Guide to Flower Buying

    There’s a gender gap when it comes to buying flowers: Women buy 65 percent of fresh flowers, according to the Society of American Florists, while men buy 35 percent. To the extent that men might be intimidated or uncomfortable buying flowers, we’d like to make the experience a more enjoyable one for them. To do…