Belfast-born Tamzen (31) lives with her partner, an IT consultant, and their one-year-old son in Maynooth. Tamzen has recently left the glamourous world of fashion buying behind to follow her heart and become a garden designer. To that end she has just completed her studies for the RHS exams in Completed Advanced Practical Course and is now studying for her certificate in Theory of Horticulture. Tamzen has also taken a 4-days-a-week job in a Garden Centre in Kildare, to hone her plant knowledge. Tamzen’s favourite gardens are old fashioned with mixed borders. She dislikes ‘control’ in gardens and likes to give her plants lots of freedom.