Gabriela Gomez-Misserian

Gabriela Gomez-Misserian, Garden & Gun’s digital producer, joined the magazine in 2021 after studying English and studio art in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. She is an oil painter and gardener, often uniting her interests to write about creatives—whether artists, naturalists, designers, or curators—across the South. Gabriela paints and lives in downtown Charleston with her golden retriever rescue, Clementine.

A park

Travel

In the heart of the Holy City, a once-overlooked stretch now offers a tree-lined pause from downtown’s bustle

A grocery store entrance

Travel

Making the case for the high-vibration one-stop shop in Folly Beach, South Carolina

Terra-cotta vessels full of clematis, hellebores, ranunculus, garden roses, and geranium greenery adorned tables.

G&G Weddings

How a plant-loving family and an inventive floral team transformed a historic hall into an otherworldly oasis

A hotel lobby

Travel

With a trove of collected artwork and antiques, the new Bunkhouse property builds off the eclectic character and storied history of the Houston Heights neighborhood

A woman stands in a gallery of flowers

Arts & Culture

Thousands of carefully preserved flowers stage a fantastical world of color, texture, and light in an immersive installation at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Florida

Inside a book store

Travel

In a storied King Street building, a new woman-owned shop bolsters the Holy City’s growing literary district

A woman in a kitchen brushes pigment onto a sugar flower in her hand

G&G Weddings

In Lexington, Kentucky, Alex Narramore nurtures a stunning artist’s garden to create remarkable botanical cakes

A woman sits in a chair in an art studio surrounded by earthy paintings

Arts & Culture

One Atlanta artist turns to foraged materials to honor and conserve the natural world

A rooftop lounge

Travel

The skyline spot borrows color, flavor, and style from the French Riviera. Plus, take a spin through the boutique hotel’s fountain courtyard and jewel-box lobby.

A pair of gardeners stand in a patch of colorful bromeliads

Home & Garden

On a South Carolina island, two gardeners tend to a vibrant sanctuary among the oaks

A woman sits in an art studio surrounded by colorful large paintings

Travel

The expressive New Orleans–based painter shares her favorite hometown haunts

Quilts hanging on a clothesline

2025 BUCKET LIST

A historic arts enclave lets it all hang out

A display of a museum exhibit with stunning high fashion designs paired with paintings

Arts & Culture

No glass separates viewers from dazzling sequins, ruffles of tulle, and whimsical headdresses from designers like Alexander McQueen, Dapper Dan, and Comme des Garcons

A woman stands in a room with a sculpture of a woman and child and colorful tissue paper

Arts & Culture

Spurred by a research residency at the Library of Congress, the Durham artist blends sculpture, archival portraits, and delicate tissue paper to transform a former plantation owner’s house

A polished dining room

Food & Drink

With its glass pasta-making room, sweeping sylvan wallpaper, and striking marble tabletops, the new restaurant blends Bluegrass pride with international inspiration

Rows of pieced together colorful quilts hang above seated people

Arts & Culture

A dazzling collaboration between quilters and fiber artist Rachel Hayes honors the beauty of sisterhood, the wisdom of mothers, and colorful laundry lines

A portrait of a woman behind pink plexiglass coral

Champions of Conservation

A ceramist and educator’s interactive coral reefs put the dire straits of Florida’s waters into relief

A woman stands in front of a vine-covered barn with two small dogs

Home & Garden

A conservationist family built a natural classroom to nurture native species and budding artists alike

Inside a cozy bar

Travel

A richly textured, art-forward boutique inn joins an all-day public house inside a storied nineteenth-century property

A housetop quilt with blue, pink, white, yellow, and red fabric

Arts & Culture

The newest show at Atlanta’s High Museum explores its collection of colorful tapestries and how their makers reinterpret memories, people, and places in the South