I wanted to add the Daylily Ed Brown to my plant list but the search feature was not finding it except by the last name (I guess). I found it in the list finally (link below to the list it gave me). I highlighted the name and copied it so I could add it to my plant list, but it did not show up in the search again (pic below). Could you take a look at this, please? Thanks!

http://garden.org/plants/searc...

It doesn't really work to copy and paste a full name into your plant list because it needs to perform the search and you then select the plant from the list that it shows you.

An alternative and maybe easier way is to find the plant in the database and then click on the blue button that says "Add this plant to your list."

I have posted on this before because I also had problems with daylilies with short names and Ed Brown was one of them.
Do your search as normal, the use the Control + F key and type in Ed Brown it will find it quickly!

Yes, I recall that the system cannot search words that are less than 3 characters long. This is why Hen and Chicks (Sempervivum 'Oh My') can't be found using the search engine. Eventually I'm going to need to find a solution to that limitation.

Ignore spaces before or after two letter words? Just for the search function?

It's actually a limitation imposed by the search software I use for ATP. I index everything into a third party package called Sphinx which is then used as the internal search engine. It ignores everything less than 3 characters in length.

So fixing this limitation basically means writing a separate search engine for ATP...

Ah, not your own program. I thought maybe you could just tweak it and tell to ignore any spaces where the string of letters was less than three. Years and years ago, invisible embedded blanks used to cause workplace problems because, well they were invisible on a printout when they occurred at the end of a print line . Before your time. It was a main frame computer serving an entire building.

Yep, this is the downside of using any other programs. It's why I like to keep my stuff as much "in house" as possible, so I have full control. Anyway, one day Sphinx may fix the problem. Thankfully it's fairly rare to have 2 letter strings so this issue doesn't come up very often.

Thanks for the explanation about the three character search. I have added H. Ed Brown to my list now using the blue box.