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
A new documentary examines why so many creative people are moving to Asheville
Food & Drink
Honor America’s native spirit at one of these five standouts
Arts & Culture
These summer titles will make perfect gifts for the fathers in our lives
Food & Drink
There’s nothing minor-league about the food at these five ball fields
Arts & Culture
Learning from the matriarchs whose stories run deep in the Delta
The Southern Agenda
Five sure bets for where to watch this year’s run for the roses if you aren’t Louisville bound
Arts & Culture
John Coykendall’s beautiful journal details the everyday struggles and joys of tending gardens on Blackberry Farm’s 4,200 rolling acres
Artists
Celebrating The B-52’s 1977 concert debut
Arts & Culture
Nearly fifty years ago, six musicians posed on the front porch of a regal but dilapidated antebellum mansion in Macon, Georgia. Vines crept over the porch and paint peeled from the white columns. But the resulting image was a stunner, and those musicians—the Allman Brothers Band—used it as the cover of their 1969 self-titled debut album. […]
Arts & Culture
Five Southern locales go green (in a big way) on the luckiest day of the year
A look inside rescuer Dwight McCarter’s daypack
Arts & Culture
Get to know the country’s original Mardi Gras celebration
Books
From floral eye candy to handy instructional guides, these books will delight anyone who loves plants
Gardens
The estate’s vast collection begins its peak bloom this month
