This is the first in our new series exploring the rental experience, and we begin the series by meeting a green thumb tenant.

Digga (aka Justin Calverley) is a landscape designer and longtime renter who’s created an extraordinary portable garden – full of plants you might never have imagined could live in pots. He says renting is no barrier, it’s a matter of mindsets. Be inspired.

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For many, as house prices rise, renting is now a lifelong reality or even choice. Over the next few weeks our occasional series, This Rental Life, will probe the rental experience. From green thumb tenants to rental utopias (cooperatives), pet owners to rental dystopias (boarding houses) – what does it take to make a house a home when you’re a renter?