Redoing the Apartment Frontage

We finally got around to redoing the area in front of our apartment. There used to be two - 20 ft tall everygreens but they starting leaning over so much that it was a liability for the condo. So they were cut down without any warning. Here's the original evergreens, which apparently were not supposed to grow up more than 8 or 10 ft when they were planted 15 years ago. We actually purchased the same species for the replant, Cypress evergreen, and it said that they could grow up to 100ft:
Here's some images of what it looked like for 2 months, ugh:

Here's what it looked like after half a day of work and $350 worth of mulch, soil, evergreens, knock-out roses, and perennials. We still need to remove the stumps. Tada!