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.

The Southern Agenda

Goings-on in the South and beyond

Arts & Culture

A new book considers the tastes and artistic influence of the early settlers whose homes, churches, and graveyards still dot the state’s landscape today

Arts & Culture

It doesn’t take much to have a great time along Florida’s Forgotten Coast

Arts & Culture

A decade behind the bar—and the camera—with Sandlin Gaither

Arts & Culture

A coffee table book celebrates the connection between the culinary and visual arts

Arts & Culture

A few of our favorite bonus shots

Arts & Culture

For his book, John Boessenecker spent five years poring through FBI files, books, and hundreds of news reports to set the record straight

The Southern Agenda

Goings-on in the South and beyond

Arts & Culture

Little-known Southern tidbits about the White House gardens

Books

Revisit the locations that inspired five classic childhood novels

The Southern Agenda

Everybody clamors for frozen confections from these six classic southern parlors

Music

Bassist and former owner David Hood reflects on five essential albums that came out of the Muscle Shoals Sound Studios

Arts & Culture

North Carolina author Bronwen Dickey on what she learned writing her book, Pit Bull: The Battle Over An American Icon

Arts & Culture

Three new pony-related books just in time for race season—plus, one visual stunner to make your coffee table an ode to all things equestrian

An early look at the new exhibit at Atlanta Botanical Garden

Gardens

How the father of landscape architecture left his final fingerprints on the South

Weekend Agenda

A small Georgia city continues to celebrate its signature bloom—this year, with a new title

Arts & Culture

A fascinating book, The Electric Pencil: Drawings from Inside State Hospital No. 3., tells the story of an artist whose works were almost lost

Books

Harvey Penick’s sage advice still resonates

The Southern Agenda

This spring, the South takes center stage in five new plays and revivals