Recommend a Phormium or similar evegreen please

I'm looking for a plant next to pond, between Bergenias and a Hydrangea.

Around 1m tall, evergreen and with graceful foliage (I hope it will nod/ arch slightly over the edge of the pond).

At the moment Phormium Black Velvet is high on the list, but I'm not sure.

I dislike stripy or patterned leaves and the only flower colours allowed are pastels and white. Flowers are not essential.

The site gets full sun all day.

Thanks!

 

Dierama! It has similar but finer leaves than the Phormium, plain green, and the most wonderful, arching wands of dangly pink or white bells in summer. Hence the common name, Angel's Fishing Rod. The pulcherrima hybrids bred in Ireland, at the Slieve Donard nursery, get to 4 or 5'. Only maintenance required is to pull out old flower stems and leaves when they're no longer attractive and to divide the corms very occasionally when flowering drops off.

 

I'm sold- I have drooled after this before but didn't realise it's evergreen. It fits the bill perfectly.

Thank you @noisette47

 

You beat me to it It took me ages to find a photo in my carefully arranged albums
Now the downside! It looks deadly if the stems and old, dead leaves are left year to year. (But then so does Phormium ).

 

That's ok, things in general look awful over winter. I just dislike bare, boring soil, any shape or something happening is good.

 

And dierama grows from seed easily, so you can have fun seeing what (pastel) colour you get! Though there are some very tall, statuesque varieties, so if you need it to make a statement, go for one of those instead. I have quite a few, but the smaller ones.

 

@CarolineL makes a good point, @Selleri, about growing from seed because I don't know what availability is like in UK for plants. How about if your Auntie Noisette sends you a birthday card from sunny France? You could gain a lot of time with some corms that accidentally fell into the envelope You'd know that they were true to the photo, too!