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Lorraine Miller
Lorraine Miller's Garden

"This is a place where everybody can self-actualize. Most of the ideas and things that we do here come from the staff. Everybody here has an opportunity to be the very best they can be. They can be free and they can be creative and there is no limit to it.
- Lorraine Miller

Salt Lake City.  In this show we focus on Lorraine Miller's story, long after she invested $2,000 back in 1976 to start the business of her dreams. Today, she can say, "I am the founder of Cactus and Tropicals in Salt Lake City." In 1994 she was named Small Business Person of the Year by the US Small Business Administration and in 1997 was named by Ernst & Young as one of Salt Lake's outstanding entrepreneurs. She provides indoor and outdoor landscaping to hundreds of customers and you'll find her retail store full of plants and gifts for shoppers within any budget.

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