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.

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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

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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

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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

Arts & Culture

Seven reads for dark and stormy nights

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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

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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

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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

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Arts & Culture

Goings-on in the South and beyond

Travel

Celebrate National Lighthouse Day by supporting some of the South’s most endangered beacons

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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