The L&L offices are closed tomorrow, so you get your weekend roundup a day early. Enjoy!

• A great read for your customers on how to get birds interested in their landscape.
• What to plant by a pool.  (Via @landscapingnews)
• How to advertise well to people with ever-shorter attention spans. Wait, what were we talking about?
• 3 steps to create a beautiful xeriscape.
• Blue trees coming to Seattle.
• Above: Casey Trees created an easy-to-use map of all the cherry trees in Washington.

Here’s our weekly digest of cool and interesting stuff from the web. Enjoy!

• Seth Godin on why we lie to salespeople.
• Don’t lists from landscapers around the country. (via @EdenMaker)
• Business ratios to track.
• How many plants do you need? Try the landscape calculator. (via Austin Outdoor)
• On your competition.
• Rebuilding the forest in Forest Lawn. (via @jasoncupp)
• D.C. cherry trees turn 100 years old. (via @ISArboriculture)
• Above: Casey Trees plants 30 trees at the Smithsonian National Zoo.