Blooms & Beyond Blog

  • 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…

  • 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…