Best plant for a 60th birthday present?

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If you had to buy a plant for someones 60th what would you buy? Something impactful for the garden? All ideas welcome!!!!

Gertrude Jekyll - David Austin rose, stunning pink colour and the most amazing smell, lots and lots of blooms. It's in bloom right now. It also produced blooms from the first year.
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And also say it looks much nicer colour in real life.

Whats their garden like, what do they like? Whats their climate like. ^ the rose sounds lovely id love that.

I wouldn't buy a plant, I'd buy a sundial or a bird bath.

That is rather lovely! Its just a medium garden in Buckinghamshire. Mainly lawn, border down one side

Ok there not into fruit and veg or anything in particular. Think that rose is perfect.

Well a few things on the patio.

Glad you like the rose idea. I love the idea of a fruit tree too, but in my experience of 3 plums, an apple tree, a fig and a cherry tree is they take ages to mature and produce something and sometimes they just don't like the location and they produce nothing. Also they can become quite big which is then a pain to look after if you don't regularly prune, so hence my rose suggestion.
If the recipient doesn't want thorns, although the rose I suggested has thrones it's not too bad, you could look at a dwarf lilac bush which is slightly larger than the rose when fully grown, and also smells lovely, but not quite as big an impact visually.

I got my dad an engraved plant pot for his 80th, planted it up with some seasonal bedding. He went nuts over it (to the point he refused to actually put it outside incase the frost got to it.

Can't go wrong with a David Austin rose though!

Would a rose be ok in a big pot?

That's lovely! May I ask where you got the pot from please? Thank you

It can go in a pot. But i was aviod this as it would need alot more watering.

It was from here: Personalised Plant Pots & Terracotta Planters – Letterfest

The only downside was the pots are quite small (too small for a rose which I would've liked). The first one broke in transit, but was replaced very quickly by them so I'd happily use them again :)

A garden centre voucher. Then the gardener can choose what they would really like.

The GJ rose is beautiful, but if you google 60th birthday rose you'll get loads of choice of named roses that relate to a 60th - might be nice to have that personal touch.

The David Austin website has filters where you can select roses by suitability for growing in containers (as well as by aspect, height, spread, fragrance etc)

If you do go down the pot route buy as big a container as you can to allow the roots to develop, but as pp pointed out above, your recipient will need to water much more frequently.

I wanted (and was given) a small olive tree in spot for my 60th

As long as you’re familiar with the recipients tastes. There are so many different ones