Pamela Anderson’s 7 Gardening Rules

Pamela Anderson is no stranger to beauty, but she now cultivates a different kind – one that thrives in soil, sunlight and patience. Her new guide to gardening, informally dubbed her “Rules of the Garden,” reads less like a manual and more like an approach to life – after all, “life is like a garden… tend to it kindly, forgive the weeds, and cherish what blooms,” Anderson shares.

Even outside her greenery, Anderson has long been attentive to the details in everything she does –  from her work in film to her recent collaboration with Flamingo Estate on family-recipe pickles. The Rules of the Garden were brought to life in a recent Sonsie Skin campaign, reflecting the same fastidious approach that defines her clean beauty line. And now, in the serenity of her backyard, she offers a set of guiding principles that invite anyone willing to participate, to see gardening as a practice in patience and observation.

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Rule 1: No Hovering

Pamela insists that growth is not achieved through constant interference. “Give it what it needs and leave it be. Hovering never helped anything grow,” she reminds us.

Rule 2: Handle Everything with Love

Every interaction with the garden is an opportunity to impart care. “It remembers how you treat it,” Anderson notes, a gentle reminder of the reciprocity between gardener and earth.

Rule 3: Never Aim for Perfection

There is beauty in imperfection so, “let the mess become the magic,” she advises.

Rule 4: Tend Below the Surface

True work happens hidden from view, where roots twist and twine. Anderson urges attention to what lies beneath, where the foundation of growth is formed.

Rule 5: Stick to a Rhythm

Patience is a gardener’s most loyal companion. “Do not rush something that you want to last,” she observes.

Rule 6: Trust the Process

Let it evolve. “There is beauty in the becoming,” she encourages, celebrating the slow emergence of life.

Rule 7: Just Let it Be

“The differences are what make it beautiful,” Anderson concludes.

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Saskia Neacsu

Senior Content Producer

Saskia Neacsu is a Senior Content Producer working across the digital side of Belle. After earning her Bachelor of Architecture at Bond University, Saskia cut her teeth at some of Australia’s most revered architecture practices before realising her truest medium was the written word. Her work has appeared in Habitus, IndesignLive and Luxury Travel, where she regularly interviewed lauded architects, designers and artists – drawing out the philosophies and quirks that fuel their craft. When she’s not writing about homes, you’ll often find her with a book in hand or curating idyllic itineraries for travels abroad.