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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 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

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