Blooms & Beyond Blog
-
Royer’s collecting holiday cards and coloring pages for service members and veterans in November
Royer’s Flowers & Gifts is collecting holiday cards and coloring pages for service members and veterans throughout November in each of its stores. Royer’s will present the collected items to the American Red Cross “Holidays for Heroes” program. Cards and coloring pages may be dropped off at any Royer’s store during normal business hours. Free…
-
Royer’s Flowers donates $3,000 to American Cancer Society in support of ‘Real Men Wear Pink’ campaign
Royer’s Flowers & Gifts has donated $3,000 to the American Cancer Society in support of its “Real Men Wear Pink” campaign. Family-owned Royer’s donates $10 to women’s charities for every purchase of its “Admiration” arrangement. Real Men Wear Pink is designed to give men a leadership role in the American Cancer Society’s mission to eliminate…
-
Royer’s Flowers donates $1,000 to Community Action Partnership of Lancaster County
Royer’s Flowers & Gifts has donated $1,000 to the Community Action Partnership of Lancaster County. The funds are earmarked for CAP’s Domestic Violence Services program, which provides emergency shelter, counseling, legal and housing services, and children’s programming for victims of domestic violence and their children. Family-owned Royer’s donates $10 to women’s charities for…
-
Royer’s Kids Club making patriotic arrangement at Veterans Day event on Nov. 2
The Royer’s Kids Club will salute Veterans Day with a free event on Nov. 2 in all Royer’s Flowers & Gifts stores. Children ages 5 to 12 will have an opportunity to make a patriotic arrangement (left) that includes an American flag. Participants also may decorate a coloring page for the annual Holidays for Heroes…
-
Sizing up six new arrangements for fall
Several sure signs of the season: cooler temperatures, candy corn on grocery store shelves and the arrival of our fall menu. Emily Mallis, Royer’s marketing manager, shared her insight on six arrangements making their debuts. 2820/Foliage Terrarium: A tilted pedestal container gives a unique, updated look to our everyday dish garden while retaining its vintage…
-
Royer’s Flowers donates $1,000 to Safe Berks emergency shelter in Reading
Royer’s Flowers & Gifts has donated $1,000 to the nonprofit Safe Berks in Reading. The funds are earmarked for Safe Berks’ emergency shelter, which serves victims of domestic violence or sexual assault and their dependent children. The shelter can accommodate as many as 50 people for 30 days and offers professional counseling and educational group…
-
And the winning arrangement name is … Cottage Garden
A quote from the French impressionist painter Claude Monet adorns SaraJane Barto’s refrigerator: “I must have flowers, always and always.” Barto, of Carlisle, takes those words to heart, buying flowers for others and herself. “And I love gardening,” she said. “Couldn’t do without flowers.” That passion for flowers prompted Barto to submit the winning entry…
-
She won a Royer’s Kids Club contest in first grade, now Emily Swanger is heading to college
It’s not hard to still see the first grader in Emily Swanger, although she’s much taller now and long ago outgrew her “Cool Chick” T-shirt. Emily had worn the shirt the last time we photographed her, on the day in November 2007 that Royer’s delivered a bouquet of carnations to her at South Lebanon Elementary…
-
Royer’s Flowers food drive collects nearly 1,400 pounds for food banks
Royer’s Flowers & Gifts’ annual food drive collected 1,381 pounds of nonperishable items for the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank and Helping Harvest, formerly Greater Berks Food Bank. The Royer’s Stems Hunger event, which took place June 22-July 6, has collected more than eight tons of food since it began in 2011. Royer’s East York store…
-
Red Lion sixth-grader wins Royer’s Kids Club birthday card design contest
Madalyn Yorgy of Red Lion, York County, is a creative 11-year-old. “She loves crafts and theater,” said her mother, Rachel. “She loves to sing.” Madalyn, who will be entering sixth grade, shoots movies, draws and colors adult coloring books. “You name it,” Rachel said, “and she makes it.” That experience no doubt contributed to her…