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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 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

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