CJ Lotz

Charleston

Garden & Gun. Emphasis on the garden. Senior editor & a writer. Lotz rhymes with boats. Am on Instagram more than Twitter https://t.co/TH7n4C2QeT

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The Great Big Summer Reading List

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | CJ Lotz

1 hour agoRevered architect Tadao Ando has disseminated his minimalist vision throughout the world. The Japanese octogenarian has also spread his wings to sign off on small-scale projects, including watches. But save for a few exquisite dial designs for Bulgari and a collaboration with Seiko, the Cauny Ando …
The Great Big Summer Reading List

2 weeks ago | gardenandgun.com | CJ Lotz |Honoree Fanonne Jeffers |Honorée Jeffers |S.A. Cosby

Arts & CultureG&G editors and contributors shared so many stellar new novels, memoirs, and cookbooks that we lost count. But here are thirty-something selections at the top of our lazy-summer book stacks. Mark Twain by Ron ChernowRon Chernow has always been drawn to larger-than-life emblems of Americana: Washington, Rockefeller, Ulysses S. Grant, Alexander Hamilton (his bio of whom laid the foundation for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical).
Got Lowcountry Boil Leftovers? Make This Breakfast Hash

1 month ago | gardenandgun.com | CJ Lotz |Ari Kolender

Recipe 4 servings Call it Frogmore stew or a seafood boil, the odds and ends make the perfect fuel for lazy beach mornings As chef Ari Kolender, who grew up in Charleston, South Carolina, and now lives in Southern California, was putting together his gorgeous new cookbook, How to Cook the Finest Things in the Sea, he cooked up a big seafood feast of boiled shrimp, potatoes, and corn for the photography team. The next groggy morning, inspiration struck.
Enter a Wonderland of Floating Water Lilies on the Edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains

2 months ago | flipboard.com | CJ Lotz

14 hours agoThis season of The White Lotus has lacked speed, specificity and suspense — in many ways, it feels like it may have been de-railed by its own success. Something has gone awry at The White Lotus, and it's got nothing to do with the dead body floating in the lake amid the lilies. Nor has it got …
Enter a Wonderland of Floating Water Lilies on the Edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains

2 months ago | gardenandgun.com | CJ Lotz

Home & GardenFor generations, a North Carolina family has propagated long lines of lilies and lotuses in their aquatic gardens To harvest a water lily, Nikki Gibson first pulls on her waders. With her dogs, Tucker the basset hound and Danni the Great Dane, and maybe even Pye the peacock trailing along, she walks down the grassy path from her home toward one of her shallow ponds on the edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
The Incredibly Beautiful Works of the Texan who Designed for Hermès

2 months ago | gardenandgun.com | CJ Lotz |Gabriela Gomez-Misserian

Across the delicate silk of an Hermès scarf, a handsome turkey struts. A closer look reveals a ring of illustrated cacti, flowers, and so many animals—an armadillo, birds, a steer. This is Faune et Flore du Texas, just one of the gorgeous scarves on display at Kermit Oliver & Hermès: Storytelling on Silk & Canvas, a new exhibition on a fascinating artist that runs through June 22 at the Bryan Museum in Galveston, Texas.
Hit the River for Blooming Cahaba Lilies

Mar 25, 2025 | gardenandgun.com | CJ Lotz |Chris Kraft

Where: West Blocton, AlabamaWhen: spring, summerIf you like: the outdoors and sportsWhy you should go: “I’ve seen little old ladies weep at their first sighting of this plant,” says Dr. Larry Davenport, the foremost expert on Cahaba lilies, which bloom from mid-May until mid-June in rivers at or above the southern fall line in Central Alabama, especially in the Cahaba River, and in a handful of waterways in South Carolina and Georgia.
Soak Up Art and Nature at Brookgreen Gardens

Mar 25, 2025 | gardenandgun.com | CJ Lotz |Gabriela Gomez-Misserian

Where: Murrells Inlet, South CarolinaWhen: year-roundIf you like: gardens, arts and culture, the outdoors and sports, conservation Why you should go: While planning one of his sprawling outdoor installations, the British-Australian artist Bruce Munro mentally retraced a walk through Brookgreen Gardens, the 9,127-acre nature preserve that sits between Myrtle Beach and Pawleys Island, South Carolina. “It’s almost like a series of exterior rooms; you go from one garden space to another,” Munro says.
Ramble the Gardens of the Bluegrass State

Mar 25, 2025 | gardenandgun.com | CJ Lotz |Gabriela Gomez-Misserian

Where: Various sites across KentuckyWhen:year-roundIf you like: gardens, the outdoors and sportsWhy you should go: Not that plant lovers need another incentive to visit the Bluegrass State’s most incredible green spaces—the beautiful landscaping and abundance of blooms are enough—but the folks behind the new Kentucky Garden Trail sweetened the pot with a treasure hunt of sorts.
Deep in Louisiana Sugar Country, an Antiques Lover Restores His Storied Family Home

Feb 11, 2025 | gardenandgun.com | CJ Lotz

When Peter Patout craves a break from the bustle that rarely slows near his Bourbon Street home, he heads west from New Orleans. He drives for two hours, crossing the Atchafalaya River and cypress bayous until he reaches his family’s property thirty miles south of Lafayette, in the hamlet that is called—no joke—Patoutville, Louisiana.