Valerie, thanks for the tips. I do admit that I'm looking a gift horse in the mouth, complaining about the lack of what should be a very basic search feature in free software. I think it all boils down to what the programmer decided to include in the functionality and perhaps what I'm looking for wasn't even considered. I have a Word document in which I've entered the information that is important to me: Name, color description, year of purchase and source, and a hyperlink to the NGA plant database entry. Unfortunately there's a bug in the version of Word that I have and the hyperlinks don't work. What I like about the plant list on the NGA site is the photo accompanying each plant when a photo is available and the active link to the plant's entry in the db. Fortunately, at the moment I don't have an overwhelming amount of daylilies (the only plants I've entered) and although it's annoying, I can live with things as they are regarding finding specific plants. Perhaps if enough people voice a desire for the search feature it will be incorporated in the software if there is a future iteration.
