CJ Lotz Diego
CJ Lotz Diego is a Garden & Gun deputy 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.
Arts & Culture
Nearly 150 of the storied Southern socialite’s diamond, platinum, ruby, and sapphire treasures go on display this month in St. Petersburg, Florida before returning home to Virginia
Arts & Culture
This winter, five visual books share lesser-known stories and rare images—a family art feud, more than one hundred locked lips, a feast of festive glassware, stunning early maps, and a truly remarkable Southern jewelry collection
In the Garden
For forty-plus years, a Charleston horticulturist has nurtured historic camellias—including what’s most likely America’s oldest
Arts & Culture
The fall haul of books includes a Mississippi courtroom thriller from John Grisham, a photography collection that brings Nashville into focus, two meaty cookbooks, and one quite gritty read
Travel
A dozen new spots for eating, drinking, and playing in the mountain city this fall
Gardens
An exclusive look inside one of the South’s most fabulous secret gardens
Arts & Culture
A new book collects stories of the items that could never be left behind
Arts & Culture
Fall brings extra servings of cookbooks, historic novels, stirring biographies, and a secret garden book you’ll want to spend an afternoon paging through
Harvest
How chef John Folse champions a centuries-deep boucherie tradition
Drinks
Using bottles you might have at home, create a blend that could pass for the world’s most famous bourbon
Food & Drink
With her new cookbook, author Marti Buckley shares recipes that connect her native South to her adopted home
Hurricane Relief
The symbol of American spirit is coming home from North Carolina’s Frying Pan Tower this weekend—and its remains will help the state rebuild
Arts & Culture
New titles out this month include a pile of cookbooks, a surprising garden read, luscious design tomes, and one whiskey book that just might stir up some folks
Books
A new book reveals a forgotten chapter of Southern history: Alabama’s “Fly Girl,” Ruth Elder
SPORTING
Travel
Celebrate National Lighthouse Day by supporting some of the South’s most endangered beacons
Good Dogs
One entrepreneur in Charleston, South Carolina, turns her love of dogs into a new business
Food & Drink
An exclusive look at how the popular burger joint plans to go native in Music City




















