CJ Lotz Diego
CJ Lotz Diego is a Garden & Gun deputy 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.
Land & Conservation
Summer means nests in gourd birdhouses and one South Carolina lake that birds can’t resist
Arts & Culture
The mega-popular crime writer on her favorite burger, “you’uns” versus “y’all,” and what it’s like being the daughter of the guy who runs the town laundromat
Travel
It’s fun to stay at the former Y-M-C-A, where a new private social club opens its doors for overnight guests
Arts & Culture
A North Carolina weddings writer dishes on her favorite Southern couples, explains why we all love love, and shares the traditions she’s ready to see annulled
Entertaining
A chat with the Virginia-born tastemaker on her new floral book, backyard plant hunting, and respectfully repurposing old wedding gifts
City Guides
There’s always something new to discover about the South’s jewel of a city
My Town
The comedian and Instagram star shares his favorite spots in his hometown—even if they no longer exist
Food & Drink
Chef Analiese Gregory’s new cookbook is a beautiful, personal read full of wild game recipes
Home & Garden
The Virginia-raised designer on her homebody leanings, a new documentary, and a porch party secret that will definitely surprise you
Arts & Culture
In a new book, William Abranowicz shares powerful images of Southern places
Sporting
Copley’s Winter Sale of sporting art begins February 19
Arts & Culture
The Mississippi author Michael Farris Smith shares an imaginative new take on The Great Gatsby, plus the books he’s been reading and the bourbon he’s been drinking
Arts & Culture
The best of January and February’s book releases for Southern readers—powerful memoirs, novels that turn myths inside out, a beautiful collection of photos, and an ode to good old dogs
Gardens
Editors, gardeners, and readers share the tiny kernels of history they’re planning to plant
Arts & Culture
G&G contributors, editors, and Southern book lovers share new releases and old favorites to read right away this year—and a couple forthcoming releases already on preorder
Food & Drink
In Charleston, the food personality’s culinary treasures helped one writer make a new home. Then she shared the whole trove
The Southern Agenda
Test your knowledge of the South, and then stump a partner
Arts & Culture
Dozens of memoirs, novels, and nonfiction books that got us through a year unlike any other