Blooms & Beyond Blog
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Tips to Make the Most out of Your Annual Plants
We see them just about everywhere around this time of year in hanging baskets, patio pots and arranged beautifully in garden beds. Annual plants, such as petunias, geraniums and begonias to name a few, complete their life cycle within a years’ time. Being both fairly easy to care for and their ability to look stunning…
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Let’s look behind the scenes and in the tool box at a flower shop
Flowers are beautiful all on their own, but it takes talent, dedication and resources to hand-craft an eye-catching, long-lasting floral arrangement and deliver it to a recipient’s home or place of work. In its newsletter, the Royer’s Flowers & Gifts Kids Club regularly showcases the tools and tricks of the trade that our florists draw…
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A Flood or a Drip: our greenhouse watering systems help improve efficiency and plant quality
To understand how flower growing has changed in the past four decades, consider 1, 7 and 9.Those numbers identify the three remaining greenhouses at Royer’s corporate complex in Lebanon. As the breaks in number sequencing suggest, Royer’s had more greenhouses back when we grew our own flowers – nine total at the corporate complex and…
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Extending the Life of your Spring Bulbs
Even after the Easter Bunny has visited and the last eggs are hunted, Easter bulbs – such as daffodils (narcissus), hyacinths, and tulips will bring beauty and color into your home. In fact, you can make the flowers last a lot longer by following these few tips. The key to making the blooms last longer…
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Living with flowers results in ‘significant decrease’ in stress levels and improved moods: study
Working, commuting, paying bills, and tending to family demands.If there’s too much on your to-do list, you might want to scrap it altogether and start over with a single item: get flowers. Research from the University of North Florida revealed that the presence of flowers can reduce stress, according to the Society of American Florists,…
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Royer’s Kids Club hosting free St. Patrick’s Day event March 11 in all stores
For the first time since the pandemic began, Royer’s Flowers & Gifts will host a free kids club event in all stores at 2 p.m. March 11. Children ages 5 to 12 will have an opportunity to make a St. Patrick’s Day arrangement with white and yellow daisy pom pons, leatherleaf fern, baby’s breath and…
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Here’s how to get a week or more out of your Valentine’s Day roses
Valentine’s Day often is described as the flower industry’s version of the Super Bowl. It’s the No. 1 holiday for florists, similar in size to the Christmas season but playing out in a much shorter schedule. In 2022, 22 percent of Americans bought fresh flowers or plants as gifts for Valentine’s Day, according to the…
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15 houseplants that will improve your indoor air quality
For all of its exploration of the galaxy, the space program has accrued many benefits right here on earth. Thanks to NASA, we know that houseplants can purify the air in our homes and workplaces. NASA originally focused on finding ways to purify the air in orbiting space stations. A 1973 space mission identified 107…
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To make your Christmas wreath last longer, hairspray is a perfect holiday hack
For the holidays, the song says, you can’t beat home sweet home. But while the sunshine of a friendly gaze can warm your heart, home also is where you can find practical solutions to Christmas complications. Take hairspray, for instance. You can spray it on nail polish to make it dry faster as you get…
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Royer’s presents American Red Cross with 3,600 cards for area service members and veterans
Among the 450 coloring pages submitted were many downloaded from Royer’s Flowers & Gifts’ website and some created from scratch. “Thank you for your service,” read one handwritten page adorned with hearts and flowers. And then there were the printed holiday cards, numbering more than 3,600. On Tuesday, Royer’s presented the cards and coloring pages…