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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 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

Two men sit at a table during an interview in a rustic office.

g&g reads

Watch the author’s conversation at the G&G offices

Two men sit at a table during an interview in a rustic office.

Arts & Culture

Watch the author’s conversation at the G&G offices

Plates with Lamb, Basket Meeting Potatoes and Beans, and Cake on a table.

Food & Drink

Plus, three springtime recipes from “Affrilachian” writer Crystal Wilkinson’s beautiful new cookbook

A vintage photo of two women; the one on the left wears a light teal sweater, the one on the right wears a pink dress.

Arts & Culture

Decades later, those dainty florals still hold a powerful grip on the South

A cover of a book with a home interior on front

Home & Garden

A vibrant new photo book celebrates homes with big personalities

A woman in a button down sits in a garden

Gardens

The design legend shares tips and stories in her beautiful new book

A composite image of Dolly Parton and an album for the Artemis Pyle Band

Music

Listen to Parton’s glorious take on the classic from a new album honoring the music of Lynyrd Skynyrd. Plus, an interview with former Skynyrd drummer Artimus Pyle

Mathis’s 150-vessel-strong Ozark Roadside Tourist Pottery collection in his Oklahoma City living room. The vessels have swirling, colorful patterns.

Arts & Culture

How the vibrant roadside vessels inspired an obsession

A black and white photo of a man sitting at a writing desk with a pen in his hand and a writing pad on the table

Arts & Culture

The bestseller’s author, John Berendt, on what he’d do differently and what it’s like as the book’s sole surviving character

Two women and a man roast marshmallows over a fire pit

Food & Drink

Etiquette, tips, and tricks—plus recipes for mulled wine, bourbon-spiked cider, roasted oysters, and the best s’mores ever

John Grisham and Jonathan Miles hold microphones while sitting next to each other at a table

G&G READS

The bestselling author also discusses his new book, The Exchange, in a candid G&G Reads conversation

Recipe

Plus, a new book shares a recipe for that other kind of biscuit he bakes for his British boss

A man walks along a pathway in a garden

Home & Garden

Garden pros share tips for giving your green spot a sense of Southern story

Home & Garden

In a captivating new book, the duo behind the popular Instagram account set the story straight on small Southern towns, shiplap, and why so many fading homes still have stories to tell