The latest issue of G&G welcomed summer with itineraries for road trips crisscrossing the South, pies bursting with fresh fruit, a new Avett Brothers album, and two sweet home renovations. But we couldn’t fit every image we loved into the pages of the magazine, so here are a few of our favorite bonus shots.
Photo: Squire Fox
The Avett Brothers share a laugh backstage at a recent show in Wilmington, North Carolina.
>Read the interview about the band’s new album.
Photo: Cedric Angeles
Oysters any way you’d like them at Wintzell’s Oyster House in Mobile, Alabama.
>Read about the Gulf Coast road trip.
Photo: Andrew Kornylak
A serene view at a Greenville, Florida, plantation home in the Red Hills, 300,000 acres of longleaf and wiregrass.
>Read about the man who has become the region’s unofficial steward.
Photo: Andrew Kornylak
A stable view on a Red Hills plantation outside Thomasville, Georgia.
Photo: Amy Dickerson
An outtake from the issue’s cover shoot in New Smyrna Beach, Florida.
Photo: Johnny Autry
This chiffon pie with fresh watermelon and cream is a burst of summertime flavor.
Photo: Johnny Autry
Peaches and cream hand pies cool before getting the ice-cream treatment.
Photo: Peter Frank Edwards
Artist West Fraser prepares his palette.
Photo: Amanda Greene
Delicate details inside writer Allison Glock’s renovated Atlanta cottage.
>Read the essay about turning a dilapidated house into a home.
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.
