Plants, trees and shrubs may be dormant as the soil freezes for a long winter, but it is possible to continue the growing season. With native seeds and a simple wood frame in your yard, you can try winter sowing certain native perennials now for propagation later.

Here's the idea: A lot of our native perennials need to go through a winter period to break their dormancy, which means the time to sow them, if you want to propagate a whole bunch of them yourself, is now .

And here's the benefit: If you have a meadow or a pollinator garden, and you want to grow some more native perennials in those spaces, you can either spend a bundle of money in the spring buying plants, or you can grow a lot of them from seed that you've propagated.

And these perennials do grow well from seed. You just ha

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