Hi there houzzers !!! My JM question received such great ideas and now 2 more questions for ya

1 - on the left side of my front landscape, I have a lemon light or something like that dogwood tree. I know it’s a bit small for the location but it’s what I have. I also have 4 spireas - pink double blossoms. The problem is the other stuff currently there. There are 2 carpet roses that I don’t think should be there. They are too much like the spireas in shape - rounded. And a patch of nothingness between the roses and a huge rock. Please don’t ask me to move the rock or I’ll have to hire a divorce attorney too. I’ve already had my husband move it 3 times - from a customers yard to our old house then to our current house and then a foot over. I think it needs to be buried a bit more and that may be doable ?? If I dig around it and dig out all the dirt. But if I take out the roses, what should I put in. Early morning sun from behind in the height of summer and then Afternoon sun. Zone 5-6. Shade from large tree. Total sun is 6 ish hours. Also dogwood doesn’t flower all that much. Maybe not enough sun? Should I fertilize with a special mix.

2 - to the right of 1 are 3 rhodies and 3 box woods. I love rhodies but they didn’t survive wind and cold winters. The leaves are only on the tips of the branches so we are going to pull them. I was thinking mini lilacs. I would love something that blooms. You probably don’t see them but there are Shasta daisies behind the left rhody and rubeckia behind and to the left of the right rhody. Hyacinths and rubeckia at the point on the right.

Ideas please and thank you !