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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Sporting

For the first time, more than 150 pieces of Donal C. O’Brien, Jr.’s treasured sporting art collection will cross the auction block at Copley’s Sporting Sale

In the Garden

In the hills outside Asheville, a husband-and-wife team cultivates a three-acre dreamscape devoted to a mountain flower

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Arts & Culture

We asked the experts at independent bookstores across the South for the summer reads they’re recommending to book lovers right now

Arts & Culture

Where to catch the solar eclipse on August 21

Arts & Culture

Goings-on in the South and beyond

Arts & Culture

Eighty-five years ago, one North Carolina girls’ camp heralded summer’s first Noel

Food & Drink

The surprising secrets behind a Florida favorite

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Arts & Culture

Glimpse one of the greatest jewelry collections ever, now on display in Washington, D.C.

Arts & Culture

There’s nothing hotter—not even the temperatures—than the scorching tunes at these Mississippi music fests

Arts & Culture

It’s been more than fifty years since two Southern icons made one unforgettable song

Food & Drink

Pick up a treat—at breakfast or any time—at one of these historic Southern sweet spots

Weekend Agenda

Dale Chihuly’s bright blown-glass creations make their way to the Ozarks

Arts & Culture

Green-thumb your way through a slew of garden-inspired reads, from a farm-fresh cookbook to a collection of essays by beloved Southern naturalists

The Southern Agenda

Goings-on in the South and beyond

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Arts & Culture

An English naturalist’s Southern odyssey

Arts & Culture

The classic comedy car flick rides again with anniversary screenings across the country

Arts & Culture

No surprise—the holiday that honors the women who loved us first was born in the South

Books

One of the best stories you’ve never heard about Arnold Palmer

Gardens

Just in time for julep season, get to know the first family of herbs

Music

Nina Jones, manager at Memphis’s refurbished Sun Studio, shares seven essential tracks recorded at 706 Union Avenue