leave the front lawn as it is plant two shrub rows along the front of the house layered by size and color use purples pinks and blues use azaleas sunshine ligustrum and camellias remove the two nandina by the house entrance and the large holly at the right side of the house don t use lavender don t use hydrangeas don t use any annuals or perennials use flowering evergreens and evergreens with varying textures of green make roughly half of the plants evergreen don t use anything taller than five feet
