DOUBLE VISION

It takes a very special garden to compete with a sea view. Especially one as glorious as the unrestricted panorama that stretches out beneath the home of Andrea Rubin and her husband Johnny on the Kent coast. But this garden between Folkestone and Hythe does just that, sloping away to the sea from their contemporary house of glass and steel in a magnificent tumble.

Part of a row of houses perched high above the sea, the garden gives the giddy illusion of falling away to the water rather like an infinity pool. Created over almost 15 years, this has been a labour of love for Andrea. It is now a hillside covered with colourful succulents and perennials,