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 as well as a certificate in Horticulture from Orange Coast College, and fours 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.

Kris Ringler

My son Kris Ringler was born into the Personal Plant Service in 1991.  Being surrounded by the company and watching how it’s run and grown for the past 18 years of his life, he has a good sense of the business, to say the least.  Kris has traveled with me since he was little, and now that he’s older he has decided to really see what it takes to run a business. He has a desire to own his own company one day, and in his 18 year old wisdom decided he could learn a thing or two from his mom who has successfully run a  company for almost 30 years.  Kris will help in the field when needed, but his main role is to keep us technically up-to-date, making sure we are up to speed on the web, latest trends and marketing in this new technological world.

Linelle Northcott

Linelle Northcott joined our team in 2008 and has been keeping us organized ever since. She has over 25 years experience working with computers and is working to get our office running more efficiently. In the last 10 years she has been a World Champion Master Cyclist, bringing the same kind of energy to Personal Plant Service that she brings to cycling. She dives, or should I say peddles, right in to any paper work we give her and makes sure our bills and client data bases are always up to date.

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).