CJ Lotz Diego

CJ Lotz Diego is Garden & Gun’s senior 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.

Sporting

The true story of a women’s basketball team in Depression-era Oklahoma that would end up inspiring generations

Arts & Culture

Goings-on in the South and beyond

Gardens

Historic Charleston Foundation celebrates its 70th Annual Festival of Houses and Gardens beginning March 16. Step into three of the city’s most charming private green spaces

Land & Conservation

Snow-white trumpeter swans rarely migrate farther south than Ohio. So why do hundreds of them winter in Arkansas each year?

Books

Going long on college football’s top power player

Arts & Culture

Florida’s first solo exhibition of Kahlo’s work

Gardens

Brave the chilly temperatures and meander through some of the South’s top spots to see the “winter rose” this year

Arts & Culture

A heartwarming holiday tale about harmony, family, and second chances

Arts & Culture

Before “The Far Side,” “Calvin and Hobbes,” or even Mickey Mouse, one cartoon stole the show

Arts & Culture

We spoke with Flagg about the anniversary of the film and her latest book

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