THANKS TO SEARCH ENGINES, my list of most popular stories each year is often very similar–with classic topics (growing garlic, planting a fall vegetable garden…) that I covered years ago still each getting boatloads of clicks, each in its own time. But which new posts, published in 2018, were the most-read? In case you missed any of them, that top-10 list is here (and the top 50 all-time list is over at this link):

1. Developing a signature garden style, even in a small space, with designer Susan Morrison

2. Overwintering tender plants, plus issues with hydrangeas (a reader and listener Q&A session), with Ken Druse

3. Vegetable and mushroom soup ideas, with Alexandra Stafford of Alexandra Cooks dot com

4. Cattle-panel DIY ideas (creating tomato cages and more garden organizing tools with wire fencing), with Joe Lamp’l

5. Asian jumping worms, and research around these terrifying invasive species, with Brad Herrick

6. Clematis pairings, and how to use clematis in the garden creatively, with Linda Beutler of the clematis society

7. Top late perennials, with Katherine Tracey of Avant Gardens nursery and garden-design firm

8. A season of container improvisations from Margaret’s garden, both pots of water plants and the usual kind

9. How to grow, and store, dahlias, with Longwood Gardens’ senior horticulturist and dahlia expert Roger Davis

10. How effective are nativars? How insects view fancy-leaf and double-flowered versions of native plants, with Doug Tallamy