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US (UT): Family grows poinsettias using natural hot springs

Dave Allan, owner of Allan Plant Company, a family-owned wholesale greenhouse in Pleasant View, Utah, hasn't had a heating bill for over 50 years.

"On some days in January when it's really, really cold outside, you know, below zero, and you come in here, and it's still 70 degrees," I think, yea this is the place to be today," Allan said.

And it's all because of nature's splendor. "I have no heat bill, Allan said. "Because we've got all this hot spring water coming out of the ground at 134." His plant store, which opened in 1976 and specializes in annual flowers and garden veggies in the spring and poinsettias in the winter, was built adjacent to a natural hot spring.

"I wanted to be in the greenhouse business since I was 17, Allan said. "I saw a picture in a science book in high school, a guy in a greenhouse picking tomatoes and this enormous greenhouse, enormous tomato plant. I thought that looked neat. I want to do that. That was it for me. I never looked at another career."

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