Blooms & Beyond Blog

  • Royer’s Flowers and sister company in Ohio donate $10,000 to women’s charities

    Royer’s Flowers & Gifts has donated $7,250 to six women’s charities throughout its market area in central and eastern Pennsylvania. Family-owned Royer’s earmarks $10 for women’s charities for every sale of its Admiration arrangement, which is available year-round. This year’s recipients and the amount of their awards: Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition, $2,500; Junior League of…

  • Kenneth Royer inducted into SAF Floriculture Hall of Fame

    It was his mother, Hannah, who started what is now fourth-generation family-owned Royer’s Flowers & Gifts. But Kenneth Royer proved to be an industry pioneer in his own right during a 60-year career with the company. In September, the Society of American Florists recognized Royer’s contributions, inducting the Lebanon resident into the Floriculture Hall of…

  • Carlisle resident wins Royer’s name-the-arrangement contest

    Janet Wright said a carousel reminds her of an amusement park and happiness. That’s the vibe she was going for with her winning entry, “Carousel of Color,” in Royer’s Flowers & Gifts’ annual name-the-arrangement contest. Wright, of Carlisle, said she entered just once. Hers was among nearly 1,500 online submissions received between late July and…

  • 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…

  • Paige Hershey is this year’s winner of the Royer’s Kids Club birthday card design contest

    Lancaster County’s Paige Hershey didn’t sit idle during the pandemic. For one thing, the East Lampeter Township 12-year-old got busy entering contests. One was for photography, another for writing. “She’s just driven,” said Paige’s mother, Heather. That drive led to success for the seventh-grader. Paige had the winning entry in this year’s Royer’s Flowers &…

  • You name it, you win it: Royer’s new arrangement

    Every year for various reasons, Royer’s Flowers reworks approximately half of its arrangements. This year, one of those makeovers is the focus of Royer’s annual name-the-arrangement contest. This design features a clear dimple vase filled with sunflowers, carnations, daisy poms and charmelia, with accents of golden solidago and purple asters. It’s only lacking a name.…

  • Entries due July 15 for this year’s Royer’s Kids Club birthday card contest

    Just in time for summer vacation, the Royer’s Kids Club has a challenge for children ages 5 to 12. We’re looking for our next birthday card design, one that all kids club members will receive in the year ahead. As a reward, the designer of the winning entry will receive a free bouquet delivery on…

  • Royer’s Flowers donates $3,000 to Helping Harvest Food Bank

    For every dollar donated, Helping Harvest can acquire $20 worth of food to help people in need in Berks and Schuylkill counties. By that measure, the food bank will leverage a $3,000 donation from Royer’s Flowers & Gifts into $60,000 worth of food. Tom Royer, president and CEO of Lebanon-based Royer’s, said the donation reflects…

  • Brighten up your back yard with rugged outdoor canvas art

    Sue Pappas needed a name for her business that was free of any potential trademark issues. She settled on West of the Wind. “I don’t know why, and it’s a very odd name,” she allowed, but it was one she thought no one else in her industry would have. Winds of change would blow, however.…

  • Royer’s Flowers funds 90,000 meals with $15,000 donation to Central PA Food Bank

    Every dollar donated to the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank can provide six nutritious meals to people in need. By that measure, Royer’s Flowers & Gifts will fund 90,000 meals with its $15,000 donation to the Harrisburg-based food bank, which serves 27 counties. Of its 16 stores overall, family-owned Royer’s operates 13 (including one Stephenson’s Flowers…