Maggie's Farm

Don't know the size of your place - but seven feet is hardly short for a foundation planting of shrubs near a house. Many of the named varieties of evergreen shrubs used by landscapers have been bred/selected to top out about that height, or even shorter: one sign of DIY landscaping is overgrown specimens planted impatiently that crowd- and sometimes undermining - the house when mature.

This is also a height that harmonizes with lilac, goldenrod, pyracantha, the taller azalias/rhodos, and many other flowering shrubs.

In fact, as house lots get smaller, one technique is to train lanky flowering shrubs to a single trunk, simulating trees at a more manageable scale.