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.
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
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
For his book, John Boessenecker spent five years poring through FBI files, books, and hundreds of news reports to set the record straight
Arts & Culture
Little-known Southern tidbits about the White House gardens
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