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

Roy Blount, Jr. shares a collection of essays, songs, poems, and odes to the food he loves and loathes

Arts & Culture

Today, more than three million young women across 92 countries are Girl Scouts

Gardens

Five jaw-dropping views that will yank you right out of winter hibernation

Arts & Culture

The world of travel trailers is as wide as the open road

Good Dogs

Only a handful of minor league teams across the country employ dogs as ball and bat retrievers, and Miss Babe Ruth left her mark

Arts & Culture

Cornelia Vanderbilt’s April 29, 1924 wedding was a defining event in the 1920s South

Artists

The artists were at the beginning of their careers, yet already beloved the world over

Arts & Culture

A few images we wish we could have fit in the pages

Gardens

Camellias love the South

Arts & Culture

Tips for telling a harmless tall tale

Land & Conservation

Conservation efforts for the playful animals are seeing remarkable success

Arts & Culture

The Shanghai Parade dates back to the 1800s

Travel

A few of our favorite holiday-named Southern locales that wear their yuletide spirit proudly

Home & Garden

How a Kentucky landscape designer grows holiday spirit at his family Christmas store

Writer Davis Miller recalls decades of memories with the legendary boxer

Arts & Culture

A game of auto polo anyone?

Food & Drink

Snag a bar stool and grab a pint at one of these four hop-pening new joints

Arts & Culture

Atlanta’s Center for Puppetry Arts celebrates the opening of the Jim Henson Collection gallery

Food & Drink

Experience a boucherie, Lowcountry-style

Arts & Culture

Small steeds show off an impressive tenacity at the Washington International Horse Show