Blooms & Beyond Blog
-
Save the date: final 2014 Royer’s Kids Club event is Nov. 1
Thanks to everyone who joined us on Aug. 23 for our back-to-school Royer’s Kids Club event. The photos above show some of the participants at our West York store. Not only is it hard to believe that school has resumed, but it’s also incredible to think that we have only one more kids club event…
-
Royer’s Stems Hunger food drive tops 2,100 pounds collected for area food banks
Our annual Royer’s Stems Hunger food drive collected 2,157 pounds of non-perishable items for the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank and the Greater Berks Food Bank. From June 20-28, “Royer’s Stems Hunger” asked customers to drop off donations at any of our stores. In return, customers received a free carnation for each food item, up to…
-
Royer’s Kids Club celebrates start of new school year with free event Aug. 23
We’re celebrating the start of a new school year with a free Royer’s Kids Club event Aug. 23 in each of our stores. Children ages 5 to 12 will have an opportunity to create a daisy arrangement adorned with a “back-to-school” stick-in. Participants also will receive a free balloon. Time slots are available at 10…
-
Royer’s Columbia store joins parade to kick off Mountville’s bicentennial celebration
Happy 200th Birthday to Mountville, Lancaster County! The borough kicked off its weeklong bicentennial celebration with a parade on Aug. 2. Our Columbia store, which serves Mountville, entered Royer’s classic 1969 Ford Econoline delivery van in the procession. Store manager Patti Barclay and her team walked beside the van and handed out 400 carnations to…
-
With addition of PinnacleHealth, Royer’s serving 11 area hospital gift shops
In advance of opening West Shore Hospital in May, PinnacleHealth System sought a new floral vendor that could keep up with the growing volume of orders from its three hospital boutique gift shops. Royer’s Camp Hill store won a multi-year contract to service the new hospital as well as the established Harrisburg Hospital and Community…
-
Ephrata’s Julia Longenecker wins Royer’s Kids Club birthday card design contest
Ephrata Middle School seventh-grader Julia Longenecker is a swimmer and a basketball player. She loves dogs and reading. The daughter of John and Sandy Longenecker is pretty fond of drawing, too. “She draws a little bit of everything,” Sandy said. “She likes to draw pictures of animals, flowers.” In fact, one of Julia’s flower drawings…
-
Royer’s tops ‘Best of Lebanon Valley’ for fourth year in a row
For the fourth time in as many years as the Lebanon Daily News has recognized the “Best of the Lebanon Valley,” the newspaper’s readers have voted Royer’s their favorite florist. Royer’s has always called Lebanon home: Our family-owned business started there in 1937 and operates its flagship store at 810 S. 12th St., Lebanon, and…
-
5 things you should know about caring for annual plants
So you bought annual plants in a container at your local florist, garden center or home-improvement store. Annual plants – such as petunias, geraniums and begonias that complete their life cycles in one year – pose perennial challenges once you bring them home. Here are five things you should know about caring for your annuals:…
-
Royer’s brings annual food drive to Fox 43 Morning News
It’s summertime and the living is easy, the song lyric goes. But life isn’t easy if there isn’t enough food to eat at home. Royer’s annual food drive — Royer’s Stems Hunger — began in 2011 as a way to address some of that need. The food drive, which this year runs June 20-28, benefits…
-
2014 Royer’s Kids Club birthday card design contest runs through July 12
For children, summer is for getting out of school, swimming, going on vacation. And entering the 2014 Royer’s Kids Club birthday card design contest, which is open to children ages 5 to 12 in Berks, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon and York counties. The deadline to enter is July 12. The winning design will be featured…