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
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
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
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