CJ Lotz Diego

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.

A portrait of a woman holding a whisk and wooden spoon

Food & Drink

The baker Dorie Greenspan on how keeping cake on hand can boost creativity and friendship—plus her recipe for Bourbon Brown Butter Cake

a farmhouse

home & garden

How one family and a design team poured their hearts into preserving this 1800s home

Travel

Storied Southern destinations, districts, and markets for treasure hunters of every stripe

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G&G Weddings

Soulful tips for going a little easier on the earth for the big day

A cornhole hole made in the sand

Arts & Culture

Gotta hand it to Ohio, this sand trick is tons of fun

A spread of a lowcountry boil

Food & Drink

Shrimp, corn, and a sprinkling of strong opinions come together for an easy finger-food feast

A cast iron skillet of hash

Recipe

Call it Frogmore stew or a seafood boil, the odds and ends make the perfect fuel for lazy beach mornings

A woman stands in a water lily pond

Home & Garden

For generations, a North Carolina family has propagated long lines of lilies and lotuses in their aquatic gardens

A pink scarf with the flora and fauna of Texas and a turkey in the center

Arts & Culture

A new exhibition shares the scarves and artwork of living legend Kermit Oliver

White lilies in a pond

2025 BUCKET LIST

The springtime star of Alabama

A sculpture of two horses fighting in a garden

2025 Bucket List

A sanctuary of sculpture and natural beauty

A white temple structure in a garden

2025 Bucket List

A new trail plots verdant points of interest

A wood-paneled sitting room with antique furniture

Homeplace

A sweet renaissance in a century-old bayou retreat

A cat walks through a path of a community garden with lush garden boxes of flowers and veggies

Home & Garden

Seeds, vegetables, and flowers with tasty flavors and surprising backstories

A collage of three images: bread pudding, a bridge over the water in a park, and a bowl of shrimp and peas

Travel

They told us their secret haunts, favorite dives, and best-bet bites

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Travel

A true stunner opens in Texas

A portrait of Nathalie Dupree holding collards

Arts & Culture

In this interview published in G&G’s Southern Women, the chef and author reflects on her journey and the joy of Southern food

A greenhouse

Travel

An extensive restoration at Reynolda honors one of the South’s most iconic glasshouses

Silver cups of mint juleps

Recipe

When life gives you seventeen lemons, throw a party

Antique Chinese porcelain decorates tables; Remy Renzullo at his desk in ; a vintage quilt on Renzullo’s nineteenth-century brass and iron bed.

Home & Garden

In a gorgeous new book, Remy Renzullo shares a Kentucky family recipe, plus hosting tips