Blooms & Beyond Blog

  • Sixth-grader Kaitlynn Balmer-Brown wins Royer’s Kids Club birthday card design contest

    Kaitlynn Balmer-Brown has been dancing since age 3, studying jazz, tap and ballet. She also expresses herself through art, drawing graffiti-like designs on paper. “She was good in art class,” said her stepmother, Emily Brown. And she was plenty good enough to win the Royer’s Kids Club birthday card design contest. The Lower Paxton Township…

  • We’ve developed a new Christmas arrangement, and you can name it

    Santa needs a helper. Royer’s has developed a new arrangement for the holiday season, but we need help naming it. This is where you come in, by entering our name-the-Christmas-arrangement contest. A lucky winner will receive one of the arrangements that he or she has named. The arrangement, in a red mason jar, will include…

  • Candace visits Cornwall Manor

    Candace Oliver, a designer at Royer’s flagship store in Lebanon, said she enjoys making people laugh and smile and loves teaching. She delivered on each of those counts with her June 22 visit to Cornwall Manor, an active senior living community in Lebanon County. Candace presented a flower-arranging class to Cornwall Manor residents. “I love…

  • Royer’s Kids Club celebrates start of new school year with free event Aug. 22

      Before they go back to school, they can go back to the Royer’s Kids Club. We’ll celebrate the start of a new school year with a free kids club event Aug. 22 in each of our 16 stores. Children ages 5 to 12 will have an opportunity to create an arrangement adorned with a…

  • Power of Pink: Royer’s donates $2,000 to PA Breast Cancer Coalition

    With proceeds from the sale of our Power of Pink bouquet, Royer’s recently donated $2,000 to the Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition. Ten dollars from each bouquet sold is earmarked for breast cancer groups. The bouquet is available year-round. Based in Lebanon, the PA Breast Cancer Coalition represents, supports and serves breast cancer survivors and their…

  • Royer’s donates $2,000 to nonprofit Feel Your Boobies Foundation

    Royer’s recently donated $2,000 to the Feel Your Boobies Foundation. The donation reflects proceeds from the sale of our Power of Pink bouquet, which is available year-round. With every bouquet sold, Royer’s earmarks $10 to breast cancer organizations. A Middletown-based nonprofit, Feel Your Boobies promotes proactive breast health in young women. The foundation’s college outreach…

  • Watch Fox 43’s Amy Lutz make an arrangement in less than a minute

    For someone who claims not to have a green thumb, Fox 43 Morning News’ Amy Lutz got the hang of floral arranging pretty quickly. “How do you know where to put them?” she asked Barry Spengler, Royer’s vice president of operations, as he handed her cut carnations, daisies and roses. “Well, that’s the beauty of…

  • Kids club: books for families to read aloud together

    As we noted in the June 2015 issue of the Royer’s Kids Club newsletter, Buds, it’s important to keep reading and learning even during summer vacation. Here’s an expanded version of a list of books that families can read aloud together that we touched on in Buds: “Mr. Popper’s Penguins” by Richard and Florence Atwater…

  • Royer’s Kids Club birthday card design contest runs now through July 17

    We’re looking for budding artists to enter our annual birthday card design contest. The winning design will adorn the Royer’s Kids Club birthday card, which will be emailed to all kids club members on their birthdays. (You can see last year’s winning card to the left.) The artist will receive free flowers on his or her…

  • Royer’s Kids Club event June 20 to kick off annual ‘Stems Hunger’ food drive

    Royer’s Flowers & Gifts’ annual food drive – Royer’s Stems Hunger – will take place June 20-27 to benefit the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank and the Greater Berks Food Bank. Royer’s Kids Club will help out with a special event on June 20 for children ages 5 to 12. They are asked to donate a…