Please recommend me something elegant and wafty for this space

[Kitsmummy]

I have just taken out a massive clump of carex pendula because it’s such a thug, however I did like the wafty elegance of it!

I’m going to be taking out the barrel pond too because it’s in the wrong place (too much sun) and gets covered in blanket weed.

I’ve attached a larger pic to show you the general feel of the garden (messy cottage garden!). Oh and I just want something green, no flowers. I have lots of baby perennials growing up so soon there will be a lot more colour in there and I’d like something just green.

The gap in real life is more obvious than it looks in these pics.

I’m thinking big grasses (but not thug grass), or a fairly wavy shrub, nothing bulky and sturdy. Thank you.

The large plants around it are buddleia, silver birch, a honeysuckle type shrub snd done massive artichoke things.

Asparagus! Wafty, green and tasty

Acanthus mollis? Probably not wafty enough.
Big euphorbia (for the green)?
Or maybe something early flowering like forsythia or currant - that would give colourful flowers early on, but basically a green backdrop for most of the year. Both can be a bit wafty if you keep them thinned.

I was going to say Gaura until i read you don't want flowers! What about a japanese maple?

nandina?

How about Bronze Fennel, small flowers late in the season, easily removed.

Thank you for all the suggestions, I'm off to the garden centre now! I particularly like the idea of euphorbia or Japanese maple. Love fennel too btw but I already have one of those right there.

I'll update!

Off topic but what's the huge thing that looks like a thistle at the back?

Love your planting style.

It's artichokes.

I was also going to suggest red tone. But thought black lace elderberry.
Japanese maples have a lovely form.

@WeAreTheHeroes ta. Bigger than my artichokes but mine are crammed in the wrong corner....

For airy plants, how about thalacrium and gysophelia

Black elder?
Sambucca?

I was going to suggest a rosemary or fennel, as they're both lovely and wafty.