Growing perennials from seed indoors, this time of year?

Question

I started a z5 (North Indiana) perennial garden this year, after buying my first home. I've had so much fun that I'd like to continue this hobby year-round. With snow and all, my mind's gotten to thinking about gardening indoors.

I'm interested in starting plants from seed indoors now, letting them grow out over the winter, then transplanting them in my backyard next spring. However, I don't want to deal with having to hook up lights. I just want to fill some pots with soil, put some perennial seed in, and tend to them indoors.

Here's my questions:

a) Will this work?

b) If it won't work, what else could I do? If it will, what challenges might I have, and how could I deal?

b) What perennials will work best with my plan? What would be no-gos? I'm most interested in trying easy-care, drought-resistant perennials, but am open to anything.

Answer 1

Alas, perennials are keyed to a specific growing time and dormant time - so you could get them to start from seed, but when they encountered the elongated time from being indoors to all summer before getting a real winter...it would kill them.  Perennials do not work indoors unless they are tropicals - basically the same things that already are houseplants.  Sorry - if they could survive indoors, though, the nursery industry would be marketing them for it - be certain of that ;).