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I replaced the bad pieces. but before I put down the new pieces I leveled the ground. As for the other pieces I left them alone. What I did was put soil under the uneven spots. I figure once the lawn is established and I cut it a few times I can always top dress it to level any more low spots. As for the shrubs I was thinking golden eunymus & silver king eunymus. Also for some ground cover my wife & I were thinking blue star juniper. Oh by the way this time I remembered to rent a roller from Home Depot. Also the nursery took the bad sod and replaced with the new one at no charge.


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Congratulations on getting the nursery to work with you on that sod. You deserve a break like that. You are totally on the money -- in my opinion -- about dealing with any high and low spots.   Everything under control.  

Let's get to the evergreens.

Your choice of shrubbery would have a lot of do with the kind of house you have.  What architectural style are you landscaping--Cape Cod? Colonial? Tudor? Split level? Ranch?  What kind of windows are there?  What trees are there now, if any, and are they deciduous or evergreen?  

One of my favorite landscaping websites is S&S (www.the-landscape-design-site.com/plantselection.html), a service located in New Mexico.  They may be in the desert a thousand miles away, but the basic landscape design principles are still the same.  

I also like "The Top Five Common Mistakes in Landscape Planting" (www.checflorida.org/fyn/plant2.htm) by the University of Florida Extension Service.  Different climate, same principles.

The shrubs you mentioned were planted at my parents' house in Glen Cove about 50 years ago.  Half a century later, they are larger but still perfect.  Your varieties are probably improvements on the old ones that were available back then.  Just watch the soil acidity and make sure there's no leaching concrete to mess up the soil.

I have a feeling you really have done an outstanding job on this.  Clearly, you have your act together, and in spades.