Blooms & Beyond Blog

  • Thanks for another banner year of kids club events; we’ll have more in 2019!

    It seems like just the other day we were kicking off the 2018 Royer’s Kids Club schedule with a Valentine’s Day-themed event. We’re not sure where the time went, but we had a lot of fun with everyone who attended one or more of our five kids events throughout the year. The photos above are…

  • Royer’s collecting cards and coloring pages Nov. 11-Dec. 4 for area military veterans

    Royer’s is collecting cards and coloring pages for area military veterans Nov. 11-Dec. 4 as part of the American Red Cross’ “Holidays for Heroes” program. Cards may be dropped off at any Royer’s during normal business hours. Free coloring pages can be downloaded here: Christmas Tree Santa Ornament Reindeer Dreidel The Red Cross offers these…

  • Royer’s Kids Club saluting veterans with Nov. 10 event in all stores

    Red, white, blue and you! For its final kids club event of 2018, the Royer’s Kids Club is honoring the service of all U.S. military veterans. Children ages 5 to 12 will have an opportunity to make a patriotic arrangement, featuring red and blue carnations and an American flag. As the price of admission, participants…

  • Made in the shade: controlling water and sunlight to improve plant quality

    To understand how flower growing has changed in the past four decades, consider 1, 7 and 9. Those numbers identify the three remaining greenhouses at Royer’s corporate complex in Lebanon. As the breaks in number sequencing suggest, Royer’s had more greenhouses back when we grew our own flowers – nine total at the corporate complex…

  • Royer’s collecting new children’s books Oct. 28-Nov. 10 to benefit area public libraries

    Give a new book, get a fresh bouquet. That’s the simple proposition behind Royer’s Flowers & Gifts’ annual children’s book drive, which this year runs Oct. 28-Nov. 10. Bouquets for Books benefits public libraries in Berks, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster, Lebanon and York counties. For each new book, donors will receive a free bouquet, up…

  • Postcard from Quito, Ecuador

    Located in the northwest part of South America, Ecuador’s name betrays another fact about its geographic location. Ecuador is Spanish for equator, the imaginary line that separates the Earth into northern and southern hemispheres. Quito, Ecuador’s capital, sits more than 9,000 feet above sea level. That combination – proximity to the equator and elevation –…

  • ROYER’S NAME-THE-ARRANGEMENT CONTEST LANDS WITH A ‘CITRUS SPLASH’

    You might call Karen Nowak a late bloomer when it comes to contests. Nowak, a retired teacher from Leola, Lancaster County, said she never wins anything. She didn’t even enter Royer’s Flowers & Gifts’ online name-the-arrangement contest right away before submitting a different suggestion daily for a week. “Yeah,” she said, “I just thought it…

  • ROYER’S KIDS CLUB GETS BACK TO BUSINESS WITH FREE BACK-TO-SCHOOL EVENT AUG. 25

    Royer’s Flowers & Gifts will celebrate the start of a new school year with a free Royer’s Kids Club event on Aug. 25. Children ages 5 to 12 will have an opportunity to create an arrangement featuring yellow and lavender daisy pompons, leatherleaf fern and a back-to-school stick-in. Each participant also will receive a balloon.…

  • TAKING A SHINE TO LOCALLY GROWN SUNFLOWERS

    Every day, Royer’s makes dozens – if not hundreds – of flower deliveries to homes and businesses in seven counties. It’s likely that you’ll encounter one of our vehicles on any given day. What’s less well known is that we’re also picking up flowers. In the summer, we make regular visits to Elm Family Flowers…

  • ROYER’S STEMS HUNGER COLLECTS NEARLY 1,700 POUNDS OF FOOD FOR AREA FOOD BANKS

    Royer’s Flowers & Gifts’ annual food drive collected 1,699 pounds of nonperishable items, pushing the total to more than seven tons since the event began in 2011. Royer’s Stems Hunger, which took place June 16-30, collected 166 pounds for the Greater Berks Food Bank and 1,533 pounds for the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank. For each…