Garden & Gun

Celebrating the best of Southern culture, music, food, style, travel, art, literature, and the sporting life. Plus, lots of good dogs.

Garden & Gun

Big Times in the Big Easy • A FEW HIGHLIGHTS FROM G&G’S NEW ORLEANS PILGRIMAGE

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Social Chatter • GARDENANDGUN.COM AND BEYOND

She’s Got Game • ESPN HOST AND ATLANTA NATIVE ELLE DUNCAN GOES HARD IN THE PAINT FOR WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

After the Storm • KEYS TO HELPING HURRICANE-RAVAGED QUAIL HABITAT BOUNCE BACK

Wild Ink • HOW AN ARTIST CAPTURES THE ESSENCE OF LOUISIANA’S ICONIC SPECIES

Sour on Pickleball? • WHY EVEN THE BIGGEST TENNIS SNOB SHOULD THROW IN THE TOWEL AND START DINKING

Forever Evolving • AFTER A FOUR-YEAR BREAK, LILLY HIATT FINDS HER GROOVE AGAIN

All in the Family • ANNE TYLER’S NOVELS PLUMB THE EVERYDAY TO MAKE MAGIC

Good and Stuffed • CORNBREAD, BUTTERMILK, AND CREATIVITY COMBINE FOR A MODERN TREAT WITH OLD-SCHOOL ROOTS

Cuckoo for Punch Coco • A TROPICAL GETAWAY, COURTESY OF MARTINIQUE’S MIX OF RHUM AGRICOLE AND SPICED COCONUT

Steering the Mayflower • A NINETY-YEAR-OLD JACKSON INSTITUTION GETS A NEW LEASE ON LIFE

Scarlet Fever • JUICE UP A WINTER SALAD WITH BLOOD ORANGES’ BRIGHT COLOR AND BOLD FLAVOR

Sweet Revival • DEEP IN LOUISIANA SUGAR COUNTRY, AN ANTIQUES LOVER REVITALIZES HIS STORIED FAMILY HOME

Feeling Suede • SOFT JACKETS, BOOTS, AND BAGS TO SMOOTH THE TRANSITION TO SPRING

Invasive Beauty • A NORTH CAROLINA BASKET MAKER TURNS TANGLES OF VINES INTO WORKS OF ART

Beyond the Grave • NEW COMPANIONS MAY WIN OUR HEARTS, BUT THE BEST DOGS NEVER REALLY LEAVE US

Beauty and the Beast • DISCOVERING SEEDS OF HOPE IN HURRICANE HELENE’S RUINOUS WAKE

Cold Comfort • SURPRISING ECHOES OF HOME RESOUND IN ICELAND

NEW ORLEANS for ALL • SECRET COURTYARDS AND BRASSY JAZZ BARS. ELEGANT COCKTAILS AND GO CUPS. SPONTANEOUS PARADES AND SUPER BOWL–SIZE HOSPITALITY. HERE’S YOUR GUIDE TO TAPPING INTO NEW ORLEANS’ EVERYONE-IS-WELCOME ENERGY

REVELING in the BIG (AND SMALL) EASY

AN INSIDER’S GUIDE to NEW ORLEANS

the NEW MATRIARCHS • Three women who continue to nurture New Orleans’ food culture

FLY FISHING’S GAME CHANGER • A CHILD of the BLUE RIDGE WITH an ARTISTIC STREAK, BLANE CHOCKLETT LEARNED EARLY the SCIENCE BEHIND TYING FLIES. LITTLE DID HE KNOW HIS CUTTING-EDGE DESIGNS WOULD LAUNCH HIM to the HEIGHTS of ANGLING ROYALTY

STILL STANDING • When a family moved into a nineteenth-century ancestral homeplace in the North Carolina mountains, the house unlocked a flood of history. Then came the waters of Helene

Impressions of Home • DONNY FINLEY emerged from a hardscrabble youth to become one of the most quietly successful Southern painters of his generation, embracing the trials and triumphs of his career by keeping his heart—and his art—grounded in Alabama

Rockin’ Round Top • A GUIDE TO SHOPPING AND BEYOND AT THE TEXAS ANTIQUES BONANZA

Finding Flannery • A NEW CHAPTER UNFOLDS FOR ONE OF GEORGIA’S LITERARY LANDMARKS

The Southern Agenda • GOINGS-ON IN THE SOUTH & BEYOND

Weird Winter Festivals • Southern towns beat the winter blues with these wacky celebrations

Flower Power • ON THE BIG EASY, AND EVEN BIGGER CORSAGES