Thanks for the encouragement. I feel like it looks like bonsai now and I hate bonsai :(

People will need a location and planting zone to offer appropriate plant choices to un-bonsai your bushes.

If you're patient it will grow out in time. Also it looks like the boxwoods could use some thinning out. It is good for some sunlight to make it into the interior of the bush so that you don't have long branches with nothing but green at the tips.

Thank you. I am zone 8b, San Antonio, Tx.

You want domes, not balls.

All I know is that I don’t want what it is now :-/

I sure wouldn't want to be your bush trimmer right now. I have some possibly bad thoughts on how to put some lip stick on this. Best I sleep on them first.

The bottoms will grow back if allowed to. This will work a lot better than trying to stuff some other plants underneath them.

Agreed. And there isn't a lot of space to put plants under them (except maybe some annuals). Which will inhibit the growing-back of the bottoms of the bushes anyway.

I'd let nature take it's course here, and not let said person trim those bushes again without Proper Adult Supervision. :-)

See if you can shape them into neat little Coronavirus designs next time.

Can you get a pic from the front? They look like they have grown too big for the space.

Your planting beds are not big enough for more than the boxwood orbs. Some patience to let them grow back is your best option. That means you have to put down the hedge trimmer, step away from the boxwood and let them get fuzzy for a bit. Can you do that?

The Mushroom Cloud will shade out and kill the foliage below so that means the bottom green parts are really going to have to get quite fuzzy and droop down to reform your balls so they touch the ground. Can you handle that amount of fuzzy?

In the mean time to encourage some patience we can spruce things up to distract from the Bonsai Bushes of Doom. Let's start by freshening the mulch. I would recommend the red dyed mulch. That really grabs your attention. Then add in some annual, big yellow marigolds to help hide the growing fuzzy bottoms. That bold splash of color should do the trick while your balls grow back.

It would be really good if you repeated the red dyed mulch and big yellow annual marigolds in the left side bed of sheered shrubbery between the drive and front entry for maximum impact.

I trust you won't use that landscaper again. In the east, landscapers are transmitting boxwood blight, perhaps you should do your own trimming in the future.

Liriope would work well until they grow in. It’s a good, easy filler and could easily be transplanted when the boxwoods start filling in.

you can plant annuals .. aned then decide net spring.. if they filled in enough to skip annuals next year ...

im not sure you have room for perennials ...

ken

I would recommend exactly the same as Ken, any annuals that appeal to you for now. I was going to say plant some small brightly colored hostas, Fire Island, Lil Smooch, Curly Fries, but your climate may not be conducive to hosta.