Just looking for some ideas for plants by/around pond - pond will not contain fish but looking for plants that are bright and colourful if anyone has any ideas :o)

Iris come in blues, white and yellow and you cant beat water lillies in pink, blue and yellow - love them.

Second the irises :) They need very boggy ground, so best in the pond or in a boggy side-bit (if that makes sense).  I have yellow flag irises in both a giant trug (with holes in) in the pond, and in a plastic dog bed at the side acting as a filter.  They are thriving :)

Water lillies too, worth having other plants for variety when the flowers aren't there - I have sedge in my pond, my variety (carex riparia) is not for the little pond but there are smaller types - they have little tiny bullrush type flowerheads that look lovely.

Scirpus are another little grassy plant that look really nice - they only grow to a little over a foot if that, and form kind of a mop of fine, rich green grass, with a teeny-tiny white flowerhead on the end of the blade.  Different and attractive.