Pamela Anderson has given us plenty of garden inspiration over the years, but her latest Instagram video might just be her most enviable yet.
Yes, the talented actor recently shared a glimpse inside her sprawling kitchen garden, and it feels like stepping into a storybook. Rustic raised beds stretch across the landscape, rustic willow obelisks twist skywards between overflowing vegetables and flowers, and a squash-covered archway leads visitors deeper into the space.
Towering sunflowers sway alongside fluffy pink roses (a Pamela staple), while a charming tabletop greenhouse anchors a seating area tucked into the middle of it all. And it is… well, it is all impossibly beautiful, quite honestly. Not that I’m jealous or anything.
Pamela Anderson’s Raised Beds Set-Up
At first glance, Pamela Anderson’s garden looks impossibly luxurious, and impossibly expensive. But once you look beyond the mature planting, it’s surprisingly clear that much of the magic comes from repeating a handful of simple design ideas.
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You see what I mean? And so, whether you’re starting with a single raised bed or planning an entire kitchen garden, these are the ideas worth borrowing from the screen icon turned gardener extraordinaire:
1. Layer Raised Beds for a Lush Look
The first thing you’ll notice in Pamela Anderson’s garden is the sheer number of raised beds (why have one when you can have, say, twenty or so?). Pamela mixes beds of different sizes and heights, creating a garden that feels layered, established, and full of movement.
Better still, each bed blends vegetables and ornamentals together. Lavender grows alongside onions, nasturtiums spill over the edges, and flowering plants soften every hard line, making the vegetable garden feel every bit as beautiful as a flower border.
If you’re recreating the look, choose simple wooden raised beds in a light, natural finish and repeat the same style throughout your space. Even adding two or three beds instead of one instantly creates a more intentional, cottage-inspired layout.
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Luxe Wooden Vibes
Divided into two growing areas , this is fab for mixing vegetables and flowers alike.
Durable Space Saver
For a compact metal option that won’t rust or bow, this SnugNiture bed is a total steal.
Go Big Or Go Home
Made from solid wood without paint for long-lasting use, these beds are easy to set up.
2. Grow Squash Over a DIY Archway
One of the most eye-catching features of Pamela Anderson’s garden is the squash-covered archway winding through the beds.
While it looks like something from a grand estate, the structure itself is surprisingly easy to recreate, especially if you follow our how-to guide for building a cattle panel trellis, which uses inexpensive cattle panels bent into an arch and secured with T-posts to create a sturdy trellis for climbing crops.
Once squash, pumpkins, cucumbers, or pole beans begin scrambling overhead, the metal all but disappears beneath the foliage, creating a living tunnel that’s as practical as it is beautiful. Win!
3. Add Sculptural Trellises Throughout the Garden
Okay, fine; Pamela Anderson’s beautiful spiral obelisks appear to be handcrafted from willow, but you don’t need to shell out for bespoke garden structures to achieve the same effect.
Sculptural trellises instantly add height and visual interest, even before climbing plants begin to grow (and you’d best believe that sweet peas, pole beans, clematis, and flowering vines all create the same whimsical cottage garden feel over time).
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When you are not using these folding plant support cages, you can collapse them into very small disc and stash them away!
Wicker trellis can easily blend into its natural surroundings, letting your plants become the stars of your garden.
How pretty is this elegant three-layer sphere design? This sleek obelisk is a great way to add extra impact to your set-up.
Repeating several of the same trellis designs throughout your raised beds also helps unify the space while drawing the eye upward., in true Pamela Anderson style!
4. Plant Roses Among Your Vegetables
Pamela Anderson’s love of roses is well documented, and they’re a big part of what makes her garden feel so romantic.
Instead of keeping roses in a dedicated border, she allows them to mingle with vegetables and other flowering plants, blurring the line between ornamental and edible gardening.
Bare-root roses are one of the most affordable ways to establish new plants, and they’ll reward you with years of blooms. If you’re hoping to channel Pamela’s style, a lush, old-fashioned variety like the Yves Piaget rose (available at Grace Rose) is a beautiful place to start. Mind you, the Reminiscent® Pink Rose from Nature Hills also boasts abundant lush pink blooms with powerful old-fashioned fragrance from late spring through early fall, so the choice is yours!
5. Use a Mini Greenhouse as a Garden Focal Point
One detail that’s easy to overlook is the mini greenhouse nestled in the seating area at the center of Pamela Anderson’s garden.
Rather than ending with rows of vegetables, Pamela creates a place to pause with a simple table and chairs, but she makes it even more inviting with a glass mini greenhouse, which doubles as a decorative focal point and a practical place to display seedlings, houseplants, or treasured cuttings.
Adding one to a seating area is a great way to make the space feel collected, cozy, and lived in. You can make it yourself easily enough, or treat yourself to one of our favorites below…
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This glass terrarium has a brass tray with four little wheels, easy to move anywhere you like.
This white greenhouse from IKEA is ideal for small plants and herbs, indoors or outdoors.
This glass greenhouse terrarium is great for raising succulent, moss, fern, cacti, or even the odd Venus fly trap.
6. Mix Flowers and Vegetables with Abandon
Perhaps the biggest takeaway from Pamela Anderson’s garden isn’t something you can buy at all.
Sunflowers tower over vegetables, nasturtiums tumble across pathways, herbs soften the edges of raised beds, and roses bloom alongside crops. Nothing feels rigid or overly planned, yet the entire garden feels cohesive, and I guess that’s the real secret behind the cottage garden aesthetic. Instead of separating flowers from vegetables, let them grow together.
From borage to chives, nasturtiums to sunflowers, thus bumper seed pack contains 20 different types of edible flowers.
Not only will your garden look fuller and more romantic, but many flowering plants (hey there, marigolds) also attract pollinators and beneficial insects, making them just as useful as they are beautiful.
It is my suspicion that the real reason Pamela Anderson’s garden is so captivating isn because she has spent as much time thinking about the atmosphere as she has planting schemes and the rest of it.
Think about it: from the overflowing raised beds, to the winding structures, to the feeling that every corner has something new to discover, it all combines to create a space that feels both productive and magical.
The good news is that none of those ideas require a celebrity-sized budget. Start with a couple of raised beds, add vertical interest with arches and trellises, weave flowers between your vegetables, and create a quiet spot to sit back and enjoy it all. Before long, you’ll have a garden that captures the same storybook charm as Pamela Anderson’s. No sprawling estate required.
