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  • Fox 43: spring and Easter flowers

    It was another egg-cellent visit to Fox 43 Morning News for Barry Spengler, our vice president of operations. He joined host Amy Lutz to discuss spring and Easter flowers and plants. “Winter’s kind of getting out of the way,” Barry said, “and let’s get some spring.” Among the highlights: With hyacinth and tulips, the plants…

  • Petals to the metal: gearing up for Valentine’s Day

    To make a sports analogy, Valentine’s Day is a florist’s version of football’s Super Bowl. So consider what you are seeing in these photos — taken at our distribution center and central design department in Lebanon — as our pre-game show. Kickoff is five days away.

  • The making of our fall catalog

    Our 40-page fall catalog arrived in tens of thousands of mailboxes in October. (If you didn’t receive one, you can pick up a copy at any of our stores.) With each of our catalogs, we change approximately 20 percent of the product lineup. Ultimately, it’s our customers who determine which arrangements stay in the lineup…

  • We get your homecoming going on Fox 43

    It was a sort of homecoming for our Barry Spengler, making his first appearance on Fox 43 Morning News in a number of months. But Barry was there to talk about a different kind of homecoming: the high school dance kind. Joining Fox 43’s Heather Warner, Barry showed some of the bling and accents that…

  • 7 ways to say you’re sorry – and many other free quotations and expressions available on our website

    The Greek mathematician Archimedes said that with a long-enough lever and a fulcrum, he could move the world. That’s a pretty lofty goal. What if you are just searching for the right words to accompany the flowers that you’re sending to a loved one? Royer’s website offers more than 200 quotations and expressions to help…

  • 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…

  • 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:…

  • 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.…

  • Coming up Rosie: costumed flower returns

      If you passed our Lebanon store on May 8 or 11 (Mother’s Day), you might have seen something that no one has seen in a long time. Our costumed rose, aka Rosie, made a couple of appearances, soaking up some sun (after a decade spent mostly in storage) and waving to passersby on South…