Elizabeth Hutchison Hicklin

Home & Garden
How to Grow Hydrangeas
Tennessee master gardener Leo McGee breaks down the basics, translating decades of in-the-garden experience into a few simple tips and tricks for planting your own hydrangeas

Travel
Five Out-of-the-Way Spring Break Escapes
Remote Southern retreats to help you unwind and unplug

Weekends
Small Inns with Big Charm
These cozy inns and boutique hotels took this year’s spell of downtime to invest in the details that matter

Arts & Culture
Bring Home a Wild Christmas Tree from a National Forest
Buy a permit, get to chopping, and help forest conservation along the way

Drinks
The Southern Spiked Seltzer Filling Our Coolers
This Texas-based hard seltzer is the only independently owned brand in the industry’s top fifteen—with good reason

Food & Drink
First Look: Charleston’s New Coastal Inn and Tavern
The long-awaited Post House Restaurant and Inn debuts

Food & Drink
One Genius Trick to Make the Most of Your Biscuits
Erika Council shares her family’s brilliant dough hack along with more biscuit tips and tricks—and some good news about her Atlanta-based company Bomb Biscuits

In the Garden
A Tennessee Gardener’s Hydrangea Sanctuary
How the slow-blooming flower finally turned the head of Leo McGee

Arts & Culture
“Winning Changed Our Entire Business—Our Lives”
How the Made in the South Awards boosted Covered in Cotton

Home & Garden
The North Carolina–Made Coffee Mug Breaking the Internet
You’ll want to get in line for this East Fork cup

Travel
Where to Stay in Nashville Now
An inside look at four stylish new Music City hotels

Arts & Culture
Lone Star Leather Goods
The Dallas siblings behind Leatherology forge a new model for luxe goods

Arts & Culture
Yes, Nashville’s Coolest Gift Shop Is Inside a Car Wash
Suds up and shop away at Duke’s General Store

Travel
A Tour of Charleston’s Boutique Shops
A variety of signature shops offer their own distinctive takes on Charleston charm

Style
A Stylish British Invasion
An English designer looks to the Southwest Georgia quail set for her new apparel line

Arts & Culture
How Emily Morgan Brown Puts the Past in Bloom
A Birmingham artist’s botanical tapestries update a centuries-old technique

Arts & Culture
Kentucky Derby by the Numbers
Highlights from one hundred forty-five years of history

style
Trishala Bhansali’s Lightness of Being
A childhood split between India and New Orleans inspires the Lekha designer’s new line of gauzy essentials

Food & Drink
The Mystery of The Masters’ Pimento Cheese
What made Masters pimento cheese so special?

Arts & Culture
The Southern Agenda: December 2018/January 2019
Goings-on in the South and beyond