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Garden, Landscape and Horticulture Index defaults to an advanced search. Advanced search provides three search boxes with an option to add more, as well as drop-down menus to limit the search fields.

• When brainstorming keywords to search by, think of terms that are closely related to your topic, or terms you might use when discussing your topic with a colleague such as jargon, synonyms, and abbreviations.
• "Search Options" allows you to limit your initial search by publication date, full-text results, scholarly (peer reviewed) journals, publication type, and more. 
• Under "Search Options," set the "Search Mode" to Boolean/phrase, all search terms, some search terms, or SmartText searching. 
• Use Boolean operators to limit, broaden, or eliminate terms from your search:
  • AND limits search results, finding articles with both terms
  • OR broadens results, finding articles with either term
  • NOT eliminates terms from the results, finding articles with one term but not the other
• Use truncation and wildcards to broaden your search:
  • Add a question mark (?) to replace one character in a word
  • Add a pound symbol (#)  to search for a word with an alternate spelling of a single character
  • Add an asterisk (*) after the stem of a word to find all its other possible endings
• Use quotation marks around words to search for an exact phrase.