Pamela Anderson reveals favourite place amid private struggles

Pamela Anderson is loving her life on her Vancouver Island.

The actress and author, 57, shared a glimpse of her garden as she explained her philosophy associated with the 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,” Anderson told Architectural Digest about her Vancouver Island garden on her family's long-held property.

The Last Showgirl star, who left Hollywood for her hometown in 2020, has since spoken of how it helped her "remember who I was" and discover a passion for nature.

“It started when I realised 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 said.

“I realised, 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 navigate her way out of a complicated "chapter."

“[It’s] where everything came back together for me. This whole new chapter? It started in the garden.”

Anderson's “Provençal” garden is now home to plantations such as wildflowers, herbs, and vegetables in its seventh season.

Currently, her team is harvesting beets, radishes, and lettuces but some of the Baywatch star's 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 said. “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.”

Her garden's produce also ends up feeding "a lot of food banks, soup kitchens, churches, neighbours, and family and friends.”

Anderson described the garden as “very volcanic,” like “an interesting vortex.” Meanwhile, her gardener said, “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 described. “That’s where I found myself again, so it’s very special.”