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A few of our favorite bonus shots

The latest issue of G&G welcomed summer with itineraries for road trips crisscrossing the South, pies bursting with fresh fruit, a new Avett Brothers album, and two sweet home renovations. But we couldn’t fit every image we loved into the pages of the magazine, so here are a few of our favorite bonus shots.


Photo: Squire Fox

The Avett Brothers share a laugh backstage at a recent show in Wilmington, North Carolina.

>Read the interview about the band’s new album.


Photo: Cedric Angeles

Oysters any way you’d like them at Wintzell’s Oyster House in Mobile, Alabama.

>Read about the Gulf Coast road trip.


Photo: Andrew Kornylak

A serene view at a Greenville, Florida, plantation home in the Red Hills, 300,000 acres of longleaf and wiregrass.

>Read about the man who has become the region’s unofficial steward. 


Photo: Andrew Kornylak

A stable view on a Red Hills plantation outside Thomasville, Georgia.

>See more photographs.


Photo: Amy Dickerson

An outtake from the issue’s cover shoot in New Smyrna Beach, Florida.

>See the chosen cover.


Photo: Johnny Autry

This chiffon pie with fresh watermelon and cream is a burst of summertime flavor.

>Get the recipe.


Photo: Johnny Autry

Peaches and cream hand pies cool before getting the ice-cream treatment.

>Get the recipe.


Photo: Peter Frank Edwards

Artist West Fraser prepares his palette.

>See Fraser’s art.


Photo: Amanda Greene

Delicate details inside writer Allison Glock’s renovated Atlanta cottage.

>Read the essay about turning a dilapidated house into a home.


CJ Lotz Diego is Garden & Gun’s senior editor. A staffer since 2013, she wrote G&G’s bestselling Bless Your Heart trivia game, edits the Due South travel section, and covers gardens, books, and art. Originally from Eureka, Missouri, she graduated from Indiana University and now lives in Charleston, South Carolina, where she tends a downtown pocket garden with her florist husband, Max.