What bulbs to plant in place of a (dead / dying) box hedge?

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We have a small box hedge that we are planning to pull up in the Autumn (we just can’t keep up with the caterpillars). I am thinking of putting in some tulips as it is the only place in my garden that isn’t really windy. Do any of you have any recommendations?

I might also get some alliums and crocuses. I love bulb plants.

What a lovely project - that will look beautiful and you can get months of flowers from February to June and beyond.

February: crocus, iris reticulata and early narcissus (February Gold or similar)
March: narcissi, fritillaria (crown imperials, snakes head fritillaries)
April: early tulips (highly recommend White Valley), narcissi, muscari
May: mid to late tulips (recommend ballerina, spring green), late narcissi (recommend narcissus poeticus), bluebells
June: alliums (purple rain, atropurpureum, Sicilian honey garlic, christophii - any that you like the look of!), gladiolus byzanticus (wild gladioli, not the blowsy type)

I recommend Peter Nyssen for bulbs - you can filter by when they flower to help with the planning.

Maybe overplant the bulbs with things like geranium Rozanne, Erigeron karvinskianus, nepeta, or other perennials that will flower for months on end and disguise the bulb foliage as it dies back. I would also overplant with some hellebores which are such good value with flowers for months. If you like a naturalistic look you could turf over the bulbs and have them growing in grass or get a similar effect with low growing ornamental grasses like sesleria or nasella tenuissima.

Oh wow! Off to Google - thanks!

We've just pulled out our box hedge for the same reason (very sad, we grew it from tiny 20 odd years ago and it looked so lovely).

DH is keen on flowers, I'd prefer something more hedgelike. I will screenshot Turkeyhen's reply as that will be brilliant for our herbaceous border.