Blooms & Beyond Blog

  • Royer’s food drive back for fifth year, June 20-27

    Royer’s Stems Hunger, our annual food drive, will return June 20-27 to benefit the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank and the Greater Berks Food Bank. Customers who donate a non-perishable food item during the event will receive a free carnation, up to six flowers per family per visit. The food drive will be the theme of…

  • M is for Mother’s Day and a morning on abc27

    Having completed three live segments and starting her fourth, abc27’s Karissa Shatzer knew a lot more about Mother’s Day flower options than when she began. What she didn’t know was which one(s) she liked best. “Well, after this, it might be even harder to choose because there’s so much here,” she told viewers. Shatzer interviewed…

  • Mother’s Day: making of our Traditions Basket

    It takes a variety of flowers and many hands to create our Traditions Basket. In fact, Royer’s team members working in our central design department in Lebanon handcrafted hundreds of the baskets in the days leading up to Mother’s Day. The baskets comprise Baker Fern, pink mini carnations, red carnations, daisy pompons (lavender, yellow and…

  • Administrative professionals loyal, social media savvy: survey

    When bosses want to tweet, they only need to turn to their administrative assistants for help. Some 84.3 percent of administrative professionals are social media savvy and are generally more tech-savvy than their bosses, according to Staples’ fourth annual survey tied to Administrative Professionals Day on April 22. Among other survey highlights: Admins also rated…

  • Royer’s Kids Club spring reading list

    Every November, Royer’s holds a weeklong children’s-book drive to benefit area public libraries. To encourage the reading habit, we include a reading list in each quarterly issue of our Royer’s Kids Club newsletter, Buds. Many baby animals arrive in spring, which is the focus of our latest reading list, courtesy of Heather Smith, youth services…

  • Fox 43: spring and Easter flowers

    It was another egg-cellent visit to Fox 43 Morning News for Barry Spengler, our vice president of operations. He joined host Amy Lutz to discuss spring and Easter flowers and plants. “Winter’s kind of getting out of the way,” Barry said, “and let’s get some spring.” Among the highlights: With hyacinth and tulips, the plants…

  • Signs of the season

    Spring and Easter are on full display in our stores, as evidenced by these photos from our Hershey location.

  • To get the best value, buy from a local florist instead of a wire service

    There are lots of statistics out there about the economic benefits of buying local. When you buy from locally owned stores, the money stays in your community and puts your neighbors to work. It’s true whether you spend your money at a local restaurant, hardware store or florist. Speaking of flowers, buying directly from a…

  • Photos from another egg-cellent kids club event

    Things really got hopping at our March 14 Royer’s Kids Club event, as evidenced by these photos from our West York store. We had a great turnout as the kids made carnation Easter bunnies. We certainly had a terrific time, and we look forward to more fun down the bunny trail as we have three…

  • Leola deliveries uninterrupted by store closing

    It was a difficult decision, but we closed our Leola store on Feb. 15 as a result of declining foot traffic at The Meadowbrook shopping center. Leola remains an important market for Royer’s. Deliveries to Leola are now being handled out of our Ephrata and Lancaster North stores. Leola’s phone number, 717-656-2911, remains active and rings…