Blooms & Beyond Blog
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10 Heart-Felt Uses for Flowers This Valentine’s Day
In 2019, according to aboutflowers.com, 28 percent of American adults (37 percent men, 19 percent women) purchased flowers for Valentine’s Day. Roses led the way, accounting for 84 percent of those purchases. If you favor tradition, we have you covered with lots of rose options available for delivery or in-store pickup. But if you’re looking…
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In January, it’s a tip-top time to tip-toe through the tulips
Tulips arrived in Western Europe in the late 1500s from their native Turkey, looking unlike anything else on the continent. As an import, they “commanded the same exoticism that spices and Oriental rugs did,” according to Investopedia.com. And by the first part of the 1600s, the rarest bulbs traded for as much as six times…
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Design your own bouquet at Jan. 11 Royer’s Kids Club event
A new year, a new Royer’s Kids Club event. On Jan. 11, children ages 5 to 12 will have an opportunity to choose from a selection of flowers to create their own bouquets. Time slots are available at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. at all Royer’s stores. Registration is required by calling or visiting your…
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Thank you for donating more than 1,000 holiday cards and coloring pages for veterans
In this season of giving, you sure did. Our annual “Holidays for Heroes” event, which ran throughout November, collected more than 1,000 holiday cards and coloring pages for veterans. We presented these cards and coloring pages to the American Red Cross, which this year is distributing holiday cards to more than 700 veterans in 30…
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We can’t promise eternity, but here’s how to make your evergreen wreath last longer
We see them on doors and fences, windows and walls. Some are even attached to the fronts of cars and trucks. The evergreen Christmas wreath is a ubiquitous holiday adornment. So much so, perhaps, that it’s easy to overlook the wreath’s rich symbolism. “The evergreen wreath — its circular shape an emblem not only of…
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Shedding holiday light on the mystery that is mistletoe
Oh, ho the mistletoe Hung where you can see Somebody waits for you Kiss her once for me –“A Holly Jolly Christmas” Even if you’ve never seen mistletoe, much less smooched beneath it, it may have been a part of your holiday tradition since childhood. That’s because the 1964 Christmas special, “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”…
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Lancaster County-grown poinsettias are arriving at Royer’s stores
It’s two weeks before Thanksgiving, but Christmas is in full bloom at Esbenshade’s Greenhouses Inc. just north of Lititz. In one vast expanse of the so-called Gilbert greenhouse, the floor is a carpet of red poinsettias. A visitor asks Roger Esbenshade, president of the family-owned company, how many there are in this one area. “Probably…
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Royer’s Flowers donates $1,000 to YWCA Greater Harrisburg
Royer’s Flowers & Gifts has donated $1,000 to the YWCA Greater Harrisburg. The funds are earmarked for the YWCA’s emergency shelter, which provides housing to single women and women with children for up to 30 days. Family-owned Royer’s donates $10 to women’s charities for every purchase of its “Admiration” arrangement.
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Royer’s Flowers saluting veterans with free red, white and blue bouquets Nov. 11
Royer’s Flowers & Gifts will salute military veterans on Nov. 11 by giving them red, white and blue bouquets. The offer is available in-store only at any of Royer’s 16 stores in Berks, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster, Lebanon and York counties. Non-veterans may purchase the bouquet for $3.99. “Royer’s is grateful to the brave men…
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Royer’s Flowers offering free bouquet to donors at Nov. 9 blood drive in Camp Hill
Royer’s Flowers & Gifts is hosting a blood drive Nov. 9 at its Camp Hill store, 3015 Gettysburg Road. The Central Pennsylvania Blood Bank bloodmobile will be at the store from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Anyone attempting to donate will receive a free bouquet. Appointments are not needed, but donors should have ID,…