Blooms & Beyond Blog

  • Royer’s Kids Club event June 21 to help kick off annual food drive

    Royer’s annual food drive – Royer’s Stems Hunger – will take place June 20-28. The Royer’s Kids Club will help out with a special event on June 21 for children ages 5 to 12. They are asked to donate a non-perishable food item as the price of admission and to bring an empty food can…

  • Royer’s Stems Hunger food drive returns June 20-28

    Royer’s annual food drive – Royer’s Stems Hunger – will return June 20-28 to collect non-perishable food items for the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank (see video below) and the Greater Berks Food Bank. Customers are asked to bring nonperishable food donations to any Royer’s Flowers & Gifts store and place them in a collection barrel.…

  • A thorny problem is solved by our annual May-June rose sale

    “It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.” ― Maud Hart Lovelace, author Indeed, June is National Rose Month, which coincides conveniently with the fact that roses are abundant this time of year. That abundance explains why Royer’s has its rose sale every June.…

  • Coming up Rosie: costumed flower returns

      If you passed our Lebanon store on May 8 or 11 (Mother’s Day), you might have seen something that no one has seen in a long time. Our costumed rose, aka Rosie, made a couple of appearances, soaking up some sun (after a decade spent mostly in storage) and waving to passersby on South…

  • We’ll walk down the aisle with you on your wedding day

    Talk about a night at the museum. Instead of historical figures coming to life, this is a story about a would-be florist providing flowers for a wedding at a museum. She left the flowers overnight in the museum’s old refrigerator – and they were frozen solid the morning of the wedding. Not only are we…

  • Royer’s delivers Mother’s Day flower and plant tips to Fox 43

    Barry Spengler, Royer’s vice president of operations, has a simple message when it comes to Mother’s Day. “The key,” he told Fox 43’s Heather Warner, “just don’t forget Mom. That’s bad.” Barry offered a number of options, from one or two roses wrapped up to a mixed bouquet in a vase to porch plants such…

  • Annual plants add beauty: 3 tips for taking care of them

    Colorful flowering annual baskets and pots provide an easy and inexpensive way to increase the beauty and enjoyment of outside living areas. Annual plants are available in a wide range of colors and varieties, offering something for everyone. Care is simple. Just keep these things in mind: • Choose plants suited to the light levels…

  • M is for Mother’s Day and the many arrangements we’re making

    Royer’s team members will create nearly 14,000 floral arrangements for Mother’s Day, most of them in our central design department in Lebanon. You can see some of that activity below.

  • Don’t let ‘DOGs’ take a bite out of your Mother’s Day order

    Our Google search for “flowers hershey, pa” returned several sponsored links from what appear to be local florists. On one website, there’s this message: “Hershey, Pennsylvania Flower Delivery by our local florist to Hershey TODAY!” The owner of that website is in Michigan. On the home page of another of the websites is this: “Best…

  • A selfish reason for giving flowers or plants on Secretary’s Day: boost productivity

    Flowers aren’t just a nice thing to do for your administrative assistant on Secretary’s Day, also known as Administrative Professionals Day. Research conducted at Texas A&M University found that flowers can help boost workplace productivity. “Our research shows that a change as simple as adding flowers and plants can be important in the most meaningful…