Pamela Anderson Says This One Place Is ‘Where Everything Came Back Together for Me' After Private Struggles
The Last Showgirl star's garden is now in its seventh season, currently harvesting beets, radishes and lettuce
The garden was previously featured in HGTV Canada's series Pamela's Garden of EdenAccording to Pamela Anderson, her life is a lot like her Vancouver Island garden.
'The garden is such a metaphor: You can replant your garden every year, rotate your crops. I started learning a lot about it and thought, this is how I want my life to be,' the author and actress, 57, tells Architectural Digest.
In 2020, The Last Showgirl star moved back to her family's long-held plot on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Since then, Anderson has revealed that leaving Hollywood for her hometown was to help her 'Remember who I was.' In the process, she's discovered a passion for nature.'It started when I realized you could just eat blackberries off a bush or a crabapple in a tree. It was one of those aha moments, that food comes from the ground, comes from the earth,' the mother of two says. 'I realized, oh, I can have my own garden. When I moved home to restart, I instantly thought, I'm going to make an incredible garden.'
The property, known as Arcady, has helped her move through an often complicated life: '[It's] where everything came back together for me. This whole new chapter? It started in the garden.'
Now in its seventh season, Anderson's 'Provençal' garden grows everything from wildflowers to herbs and vegetables. Currently, her team is harvesting beets, radishes and lettuces while the Baywatch star is out on the road. But some of her favorite things to grow include roses and heirloom tomatoes.
'I love my Yves Piaget roses. I also harvest rose hips and make face oils and all sorts of beauty treatments out of them,' Anderson says. 'And I love my heirloom tomatoes — I have that vegan cookbook I put out last year. A great heirloom tomato salad—that's the perfect food.'
But The Naked Gun actress isn't the only one who enjoys the garden's produce: 'We get to feed a lot of food banks, soup kitchens, churches, neighbors, and family and friends.'The Vancouver garden is far from traditional. Anderson described it as 'very volcanic,' like 'an interesting vortex.' Even her gardener says 'I don't know what's going on in this garden, but it's so happy.'
'There's just something about it — getting your hands dirty, even being barefoot in the garden — something about it connects me back to who I am,' she describes. 'That's where I found myself again, so it's very special.'
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This is not the first time Anderson's garden has been in the public eye. The actress is no stranger to posting garden updates on her Instagram. The grounds were also featured in Pamela's Garden of Eden, a series which followed the star as she restored her family's Canadian property.
However, Anderson revealed exclusively to PEOPLE that she felt 'exploited' while filming the first season.
'The first season, I was a bit of a mess,' Anderson said in November 2023. 'It was not my favorite time of life. I was in survival mode while writing my memoir [Love, Pamela], the documentary [Pamela: A Love Story] was being made, and I was an open wound when it was being shot. I just wasn't that happy with it.'
"The second season is about redemption, authenticity, truth and self acceptance," she added. "I'm taking my power back, instead of giving it up. I took control of the show and figured out a way to keep to my vision, and turn it into a positive experience. I kept it real."
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