<p>Purdue Extension Johnson County is offering a two-day workshop focused on rainscaping — the practice of designing landscape features to retain stormwater.</p>
<p>The workshops will be 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. May 15 and 16 at the extension office, 484 N. Morton St., Franklin. Registration is $70 for two days of instruction, lunches and classroom materials.</p>
<p>Organizers will teach participants about the concepts of rainscaping, how to select and analyze sites and what plants to select to create your own rain garden.</p>
<p>The group will tour local rain gardens to get a sense of what they look like and how they function, and people will get to create rainscaping features themselves at the extension office.</p>
<p>The workshop is open to the public. For more information, go to edustore.purdue.edu or call (765) 494-6794.</p>
