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

Two Seckatary Hawkins books that guided Harper Lee toward her seminal work

Travel

Fall’s favorite bloom flourishes throughout the South, particularly at one historic Alabama home

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Arts & Culture

One author sets out to show just how iconic a hairstyle can be

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Arts & Culture

Check out the latest releases from authors we’ve featured in the magazine

Travel

Eleven burial grounds that are peaceful, historic, and memorable

Arts & Culture

A handful of Southerners with good advice on how they made it to a tenth decade

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Food & Drink

A new book and documentary tell the story of New Orleans restaurateur Ella Brennan

Gardens

Gardens don’t need to be gigantic to be grand.

The Southern Agenda

Goings-On In the South & Beyond

The Southern Agenda

New restaurant openings across the South

The Southern Agenda

NC Barbecue Revival organizer Wyatt Dickson shares three standout Eastern North Carolina barbecue joints

Arts & Culture

The Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist’s book is a light-hearted look at the state’s strangeness

Arts & Culture

Meet the Southern women behind the space race

The Southern Agenda

Three Southern authors reflect on their favorite books by the bard of the Lowcountry

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Arts & Culture

Memorable grave sayings from cemeteries around the South

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Travel

Five subterranean Southern destinations worth a detour

Travel

For the first time in three years, one of the largest flowers in the world is blooming at the U.S. Botanic Garden Conservatory.

Arts & Culture

How Brownie Wise spread the Tupperware gospel in 1950s Florida

Arts & Culture

Apparently, quite a few G&G readers have a soft spot for Misty of Chincoteague

Arts & Culture

Meet Mary Mann Hamilton