Employees

“Gardening is my way of giving something of beauty back to the world.”

Debra Ringler

I founded the Personal Plant Service in 1982, and consider it a blessing to continue in a business that I still love after 25 years. It’s a challenging job to keep plants thriving in a constantly changing environments, but I spend a lot of time training my staff and instilling in them our mission which is to provide quality service while remaining personable and attentive to our customers needs. We focus on what I call the Triple A’s of professionalism: Appearance, Attitude and Action. I believe clients have more confidence in people with a professional appearance, thus our team out in the field wear uniforms and name tags so we can be easily identified. Clients appreciate working with us because we have good attitudes. We want our interaction with you to be positive and realize we are entering your personal space and we try to be sensitive to that. I empower my staff to be action oriented, and follow through on their commitments. I have a wonderful staff, who I enjoy working with, and I would like to introduce them to you.

Anna Sahagun

Anna Sahagun has been with the Personal Plant Service for almost 10 years. Anna and I had served on the board of a single mom ministry at our church and I soon found her to be faithful to follow through on all she promised to do. She has brought this faithfulness to our company by providing consistent and thorough plant care with a smile. Anna is an employee who sincerely desires to provide her customers with the very best service, and will do whatever she is asked without complaint; just do not mess with her tools or treasured water machine! Her continued faithfulness has been an asset to our company, and we are grateful to have her on our team.

Miko Morita

We were thrilled when Miko Morita joined our staff in May of 2008. Having taken my class at Orange Coast College in the fall, I already knew her to be a student who was creative, knowledgeable and had a sincere desire to make this wonderful field of horticulture her career. She has traveled worldwide and even taught English in Japan for two years. She has a degree in Humanities – Sociology as well as a certificate in Ornamental Horticulture from Orange Coast College, and four years experience working at Laguna Hills Nursery. She will be assisting me in all aspects of the business from plant maintenance, to design and proposals and together we are currently working on building this website.

Katie Ringler

We have always been an animal friendly Plant Service, especially since we see the family pets sometimes more often than the residential clientele themselves.  Since we were doing write ups on everyone else in our company, we decided it was time to introduce you to our company mascot.  Katie is a through-bred Jack Russel Terrier who has been our support dog for almost 10 years.  She has a cheerful disposition and is always there to greet us when we come to the office.  Katie’s role in the company is to give love and affection to our entire staff, attend all company breakfasts that Deb loves to cook for everyone, and generally keep watch over all of us.  Katie’s friendly and engaging personality charms everyone she meets, she is extremely well behaved for her breed and seems to get along well with everyone (unless you are a squirrel or possum).