Blooms & Beyond Blog
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How lovely are thy branches: Hershey store contributes to inaugural Christmas Tree Showcase
With a fresh-cut Christmas tree, you can bring a little bit of nature indoors. But Andrea Campbell didn’t stop there with Royer’s contribution to the inaugural Christmas Tree Showcase in Hershey, describing her embellished evergreen as having a “natural, outdoorsy” vibe. “As if you took a walk in the woods,” said Andrea, who has been…
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Thank you for donating more than 800 children’s books to area public libraries
Thank you to everyone who donated to “Bouquets for Books,” which this year collected 806 new children’s book for public libraries in the seven counties where we operate. The book drive, which ran Oct. 28 -Nov. 10, has yielded nearly 19,000 books in its 13-year history. Anyone who donated a new children’s book was eligible…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 –…
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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…
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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.…