Pamela Anderson’s 15,000-square-foot Canadian garden feeds her community, but she also harvests roses to make face oils

After spending much of her life in the spotlight, Pamela Anderson returned to her family's property in Ladysmith, British Columbia, on Canada's Vancouver Island during Covid. The actress transformed her family estate on Vancouver Island into a sprawling green space that supplies produce to her community. But here's the most interesting part, she utilises her garden in multiple other ways and one of them is making her own beauty treatments from roses.

In a June 2025 interview with Architectural Digest, Pamela Anderson revealed that she harvests rose hips from her favourite roses to make face oils and other beauty products, thus giving insight about she uses the garden beyond growing food for her community.

“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 told AD. “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.”

Pamela Anderson garden spans 15,000-square-foot

The 'Baywatch' star has spoken extensively about her love of gardening and the personal connection she feels with the land. Her garden includes a large vegetable-growing area, flowers and other plants that serve different purposes, from feeding people to inspiring her skincare routine. The 15,000-square foot garden is located at Arcady, her family’s seven-acre property on Vancouver Island.

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She bought the estate from her grandparents around three decades ago. The property also holds family memories, as her parents lived there after getting married and her sons, Brandon and Dylan, took their first steps there. “I came to a point where I decided to move home and disappear and get into my garden,” she told the outlet. She added that expanding the patch was “really like a metaphor of putting my life back together,” where “the smallest things became really profound.”

The garden has grown extensively since then. In her June 2025 interview with Architectural Digest, Anderson said she had expanded the original growing space and involved her sons in designing it.

“We put in huge vegetable boxes,” she said. “There’s about 15,000 square feet of vegetables now.” She also explained how the garden benefits others. “We get to feed a lot of food banks, soup kitchens, churches, neighbors, and family and friends,” Anderson told Architectural Digest.

How Pamela Anderson transformed her garden

When Pamela Anderson returned to the property, she had a lot of work ahead of her to restore it. “I mean, you should see the before pictures,” Anderson said. “It was decayed and rotten to the ground. I lived in another little house on the beach that I had that was livable.” But over the years, she has grown quite a green thumb. What began as a personal project has grown into something much bigger and today, her garden produces harvest that goes beyond her kitchen.

“[It’s] where everything came back together for me. This whole new chapter? It started in the garden,” she told Architectural Digest in June 2025. Today, garden grows everything from wildflowers and herbs to fruits and vegetables.

“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 told AD. “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.”

She also posted about her garden in an Instagram reel where she revealed various purple and orange flowers, followed by plants with massive leaves and towering sunflowers. Garden arches and wooden pergolas are all bursting with vines. Over time, the garden expanded with help from her sons, Brandon and Dylan. Anderson told Architectural Digest that the vegetable-growing area had reached around 15,000 square feet. “We put in huge vegetable boxes,” she said of the garden's layout

Pamela Anderson says her garden keeps her grounded

The actress has described gardening as a way to reconnect with herself after travelling for work. “It’s grounding for me,” Anderson told People, explaining what happens when she returns to her garden after being away from Canada for work. “I get home with my dogs and I get in the garden and I start throwing them vegetables through the fence. And just slowly I come back down to earth. It takes me a couple days.”

She also described the excitement of watching plants grow from seeds into mature produce. “I feel like a little kid in the garden because the things I planted from little seeds are huge… You get a few nicks here and there from my clippers, but you can’t walk away from the garden without feeling inspired,” she said.

For beginners hoping to develop a similar interest in gardening, Anderson has offered straightforward advice. “Just make a lot of mistakes and try. Really, it’s soil, water, and sun. It’s the simplest thing,” she told Architectural Digest.