Blooms & Beyond Blog

  • ‘Royer’s Stems Hunger’ food drive returns June 17-July 1

    Royer’s annual food drive returns June 17-July 1 to benefit the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank and the Greater Berks Food Bank. For each nonperishable food item, donors will receive a free carnation, up to a maximum of six carnations per visit. Donations may be dropped off at any Royer’s store during normal business hours. Additional…

  • Revive your roses with these easy steps

    Even when handled with great care, the heads of your beautiful roses could drop over within a few days of receiving a bouquet. It’s not that the flowers are old. Rather, it’s likely that an air bubble got stuck in the stem, preventing water from getting in. With these easy steps, you can bring the…

  • 4 steps to creating your prom corsage

    Another school year is winding down, but not before the return of prom season. Erica Bixby, Royer’s store manager in Lebanon, visited Fox 43 Morning News today to discuss prom corsages and boutonnieres with Amy Lutz. Erica boiled the process down to four easy steps, with help from Amy. 1. “You always want to start…

  • Royer’s giving back portion of online prom sales to area high schools

    Area high schools compete in many ways, from football games to tennis matches, debates to television quiz shows. Here’s a new one for them to consider: prom flowers. Except in this competition, there are only winners. For the first time, Royer’s Flowers is returning a percentage of online prom sales to participating area high schools…

  • The making of our Easter Centerpiece

    It’s known in our catalog as item No. 4109, but many numbers go into the making of our Easter Centerpiece. There’s 10, the number of baker fern. Seven lavender daisy pompons. And five heads of purple statice. Of course, it wouldn’t be Easter without four glitter eggs, in addition to the arrangement’s other elements. The…

  • Our flowers are rooted in many places around the world

    North America to South America. Europe, Africa and Asia. Oh, the places we’ll go to procure high-quality flowers. We’ve previously told you about our regular trips to Bogota, Colombia, which has an ideal climate for growing roses, for instance. Here’s a sampling of other flowers and the couuntries from which we source them: Carnations/alstromeria: Bogota,…

  • Royer’s employees donate $740 to American Heart Association’s Lancaster division

    Royer’s employees have donated $740 to the American Heart Association’s Lancaster division. In January, employees had the opportunity to purchase red polo shirts bearing the Royer’s logo. For each shirt, they donated $10 to the heart association. The American Heart Association is the nation’s oldest and largest voluntary organization dedicated to fighting heart disease and stroke.…

  • Terrariums back on the job — and perfect for the office

    Entire TV shows these days are dedicated to tiny houses, so perhaps it should come as little surprise that mini-gardens are popular again. Royer’s recently reintroduced terrariums to its product lineup. They are individually crafted in our dish garden department in Lebanon and come in rope; dome (small, medium and large); and greenhouse versions. “You…

  • We’re putting our best ‘Bunny Face’ forward with free kids club event March 25

    Bunny Face, I love you. Bunny Face, I need you. If you’re between the ages of 5 and 12, you can make your own Bunny Face to bring home for Easter. The Royer’s Kids Club will play host to a free kids club event March 25 in all stores. Besides making a carnation bunny, participants…

  • The making of our ‘Thoughts of You’ arrangement

    Among the thousands of Valentine’s Day arrangements we’ll be making this year is one called Thoughts of You, which this team was handcrafting in our central design department in Lebanon. This arrangement features shades of pink comprising a rose, alstroemeria, carnations and mini carnations, as well as lavender button poms and stems of bupleurum, all…