Perennial grasses for a cottage garden?

Evening all

Just wondering if anyone has any recommendations of grasses that would go nicely in a cottage garden? The garden isn't huge, so I'm thinking smallish, compact grasses that won't take over and don't require a large amount of expertise. If you know any that have those nice fluffy tips that blow around in the breeze, that's the dream! Oh, and perennial too... is this an impossible brief?!

In terms of the conditions we've got, it's south-facing, all quite sunny (aside from morning shade on the left and evening shade on the right) and the ground seems to be quite light and dries out quite quickly.

Any thoughts really welcome. I know nothing about grasses.
Thanks hugely in advance!

 

Ooo, where do we start, Bent, Timothy, Yorkshire Fog, Meadow Fescue.

Can't remember if its a grass or a sedge but Cocksfoot Grass looks great in spring on a low lawn.

A mixture of non invasive grasses can look great in sucession over the summer, esp. if combined with wild flowers like Hay Rattle, Corncockle, field poppy, Salad Burnet, Cornflower Etc.

 

Thanks Ziggy!

Stupid question, but I'm imagining these grasses would be individual 'plants', like a mound of decorative grass in the borders, rather than part of the lawn.

Were the ones you recommended above more lawn grass or could they work well as individual clumps in borders?

 

Mostly native meadow grasses, you could have them as single plants in the borders but there are probably imported grasses that others will recommend.

I don't know much about non native stuff, i'm wild plants & veg department

 

Some on here,

Wild flowers meadow seed and ornamental meadow grasses- Suppliers, UK, Exeter