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.

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

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