Garden & Gun

Garden & Gun is a southern lifestyle magazine written for both men and women who have passion for all things southern; including the food, the arts and culture, the sporting lifestyle, the land, the travel destinations, and the overall ideals and values that make the south unique.

Garden & Gun

Covers in Bloom • Welcoming spring with a double dose of garden beauty

CONTRIBUTORS

LETTERS

Kathryn Stockett Goes Home Again • The Help’s author returns to Mississippi for her sophomore novel

Fire Signs • Meet the neon guru who keeps New Orleans aglow

The River Giants Rally • Floodplain restoration on the Mississippi fuels the prehistoric alligator gar’s comeback

Nashville Visionary • The past is bright at a new vintage eyewear shop

For the Birds • As avian species hang in the balance, what’s past is prologue

Feasts for Foodies • Delicious new culinary reads

The Unkindest Cut • What’s the best way to dump a hairstylist?

A Teenage Wonder’s Return • On her first album in five years, Snail Mail’s Lindsey Jordan inches toward happiness

Second to None • Country’s new rising star

Brisket Conductors • Real Texas ’cue in a Mississippi whistle-stop? Believe it

Smoked in Raleigh • Expanding North Carolina’s barbecue bounds

Highball Perfection • Say sayonara to mediocre whiskey sodas

Ring Leaders • Texas onions bring their trademark sweetness to tempura-battered delights

Scoop of the Year • Sour cream, caviar, Ruffles? The high and the low never tasted so good

Fish on the Wing • The best New Orleans dish you’ve never tried

Inspiration to a Tee • An artist and a professional golfer return with a flourish to their roots

Magic City Metalheads • Birmingham young guns forge the future of elegant home and garden decor

Spring Glow-Up • Shake off winter with fresh ideas for the porch and garden

Playing for Keeps • Ruby the boxer showed her family how to cherish life in all its seasons

Braking for Bluebonnets • A winding road trip culminates in a Texas rite of spring

Chanterelles: A Love Story • How a Georgia transplant found a sense of belonging—and true romance—amid a patch of glorious mushrooms

The Gallery

SECRETS of the NEW SOUTHERN GARDEN

GROWING EDEN • In a lush rhododendron forest in Highlands, North Carolina, one couple poured their love of classic English gardens into a paradise of moss, leaf, and stone

GREEN THUMBS AT HOME • A stylist, a chef, and a designer make their interiors—and perhaps yours—sprout with abundance

THE MAGIC OF A MOON GARDEN • Planting (and partying) with the evening in mind

The Guiding Light of Blackberry Farm • Ten years since the tragic death of Sam Beall, the guiding light of Blackberry Farm, his farm-to-table vision and gospel of Southern hospitality continue to resound across—and beyond—the resort, now celebrating fifty years of family ownership

ON THE TRAIL of TEXAS TOMS • After decades of hunting wild turkeys through the Southeast’s bottomland swamps and hardwood forests, the author heads deep into the Lone Star State’s sandy, mesquite-strewn heart to take on the elusive Rio Grande

The Harmony of Home • IN A TWOHUNDRED-YEAR-OLD FARMHOUSE, THE WRITER SULEIKA JAOUAD AND THE MUSICIAN JON BATISTE CREATED BOTH A HOME AND AN ARTISTIC REFUGE, PLANTING BULBS AND BLESSINGS FOR THE FUTURE

Savannah’s New Pulse • Locals share their favorite haunts in Georgia’s coastal gem

Where the Wolves Still Roam • In New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness, ancient whispers echo off the mountains and spark the soul

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