Blooms & Beyond Blog

  • Royer’s donates candles for Mental Illness Awareness Week vigil in Carlisle

    The Cumberland/Perry Community Support Program will hold a candlelight vigil at 6:30 p.m. Friday on the steps of the Old Cumberland County Courthouse as part of its celebration of Mental Illness Awareness Week, Oct. 6-12. Royer’s, which has a store at 100 York Road, Carlisle, donated 200 candles for the vigil, which will feature Dennis…

  • Win flowers for a year in ‘Petals to the Metal’ classic car and truck photo contest

    There are classic flowers and classic automobiles. And they’re coming together for Royer’s “Petals to the Metal” classic car and truck photo contest. The event is inspired by Royer’s 1969 Ford Econoline delivery van, which is on display at our flagship store in Lebanon. In the meantime, we want to see what other cool classic…

  • Just two months until ‘Bouquets for Books’ book drive

    Make a mental bookmark for Nov. 1-9. That’s when our annual “Bouquets for Books” book drive returns to collect new children’s books for area public libraries. It’s really simple – and rewarding – for you to help out. Just bring a new book to any of our stores during the event, and you will receive…

  • Royer’s exclusive: Corazon rose

      The poet and writer Gertrude Stein was wrong. A rose is a rose is a rose, she said. If she meant to suggest that all roses are alike, then she was wrong. We’d like to introduce you to the Corazon rose. It’s unlike any other rose we sell. Don’t get us wrong, we love…

  • Schreiber Pediatric teen camp visits Royer’s corporate complex

    We were thrilled to be a stop once again for Schreiber Pediatric Rehab Center‘s teen camp, which provides participants with an opportunity to work on social skills and learn life skills during outings in the community. The children toured much of Royer’s corporate complex in Lebanon on Aug. 22. The teen camp has visited Royer’s for…

  • Kids club members celebrate summer, look ahead to Oct. 26 event

    Nat King Cole gave us “Those Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer.” The Royer’s Kids Club added “daisy” to the rhyming pattern with its Aug. 17 event. Available in each of our stores, the free event gave children ages 5 to 12 an opportunity to make a Sweet Summer Daisy Bowl arrangement. The kids club’s…

  • Orla Egolf wins Royer’s Kids Club birthday card design contest

    Paula Egolf is a professional artist, her acrylic paintings having been exhibited at juried shows, galleries and museums. Apparently she’s also an inspiration to her 10-year old granddaughter Orla Egolf (photo). Orla, a fourth-grader in the School District of Lancaster, is the winner of Royer’s Flowers & Gifts’ 2013 birthday card design contest. Her prize…

  • In search of the best rose

    “Where will I wander and wonder? Nobody knows But wherever I`m going I`ll go In search of a Rose” –From the song “In Search of a Rose” by The Waterboys   Just after Labor Day, Tom Royer is going in search of a certain type of rose. “We don’t want a rose,” said Tom, Royer’s…

  • Sisters Annie and Maddie celebrate birthdays at Royer’s

    Melissa Castellano is expecting her third child, a boy, in August. When he turns 5, he can join the Royer’s Kids Club. “If his sisters have anything to say about it,” Melissa quipped. Sisters Annie, 10, and Maddie, 6, are veterans of the kids club, although the family’s ties to Royer’s run even deeper than…

  • Best of the West (Shore): Royer’s tops Sentinel survey

    For the second year in a row, the readers of the Carlisle Sentinel newspaper have voted Royer’s Flowers as the best florist on the West Shore. The newspaper announced the results of its 11th annual “Best of West Shore” survey in the Aug. 4 print edition. Readers cast thousands of ballots, submitted by mail and…