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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 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

Inside a red hotel lobby with marble tables and shelves of art

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

Reba McEntire being carried on a throne

Music

A full 85 percent of the chosen contestants—and don’t forget judge Reba!—are Southern…and Michael Bublé cannot stop practicing a dramatic Southern accent

Mobile substations in gravel

hurricane helene

“It’s different because it’s home”

A pack of mules head up a mountain

hurricane helene

Aided by Cajun Navy 2016, relief is arriving in Western North Carolina by air, foot, and hoof

A destroyed road and structures with an overflowing brown river

hurricane helene

“Lake Lure is the remnants of Chimney Rock now,” says Lizzie Brewer, who escaped mudslides and roaring water in North Carolina, then went back to help others before evacuating by helicopter

Mud covers a road, which has been partially washed away

HURRICANE HELENE

Days after historic storm, “we’re still trying to save every single person we can”

Nicholas Sparks with a collage of some of his book covers

Arts & Culture

Writing advice, plus the bestselling author’s favorite tour spots and the classic novels he’s reading for the first time

A foggy path

Arts & Culture

A Texas author seeks beauty in urban edgelands, abandoned lots, and back alleys—and you can, too

A woman paints leaves on a wall of wallpaper

Home & Garden

Gracie is more than a trend—it’s a generations-long tradition

A black llama

Arts & Culture

Pour one out for Whisky—and raise another to his sidekick alpaca, Cinnamon—who linked an animal-loving family from Charleston to Vermont

A portrait of a man with a striped shirt.

Arts & Culture

In Charleston, South Carolina, a big dreamer shakes up the status quo

Three ice cream sandwiches on a red plate

Recipe

Two soft cookies encase a schmear of peach and buttermilk ice cream

A colorful living room with many works of art on the wall, green chairs, and a patterned rug

Home & Garden

Tips, tricks, and advice for making a home more curated than cluttered—and why it’s okay to keep Grandma’s dishes