Blackberry Nip

from $27.00

Type: Hybrid Tea

Brand: Rob Somerfield

Stock: 4

Known as a ‘showstopper’, one of our most strikingly beautiful, unusual and popular roses is Blackberry Nip. Ranging in colour from magenta to deep purple, Blackberry Nip is prized, not only for its colour, but for the heavy, ‘old-fashioned’ fragrance of the roses you remember from grandma’s garden. Blackberry Nip’s strongly scented petals make wonderful potpourri. With a fragrance rating at the top of the scale, Blackberry Nip won the award for most fragrant rose at the Auckland Rose of the Year in 1999 and the Silver Star of the South Pacific National Rose Trial grounds in Palmerston North in 1998 – the highest award for a [then] amateur breeder.
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Bareroot Winter Only.
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Specifications:

Category: Hybrid Tea
Breeder: Rob Somerfield
Year of Introduction: 1998
Parentage: Deep Secret + Old Port
Height and width: approx. 150cm x 60cm
Growth: Vigorous
Foliage: Smokey green
Thorns: Easily removed
Bloom: High Centre cup shape approx. 90/110cm repeat flowering
Colour: Cerise Pink to deep Purple depending on the various elements in soil and tem
Fragrance: Strong/Intense rose perfume
Health: Extremely healthy and hardy bush
Petal Count: 35/40
Awards: Blackberry Nip won the award for most fragrant rose at the Auckland Rose of the Year in 1999 and the Silver Star of the South Pacific National Rose Trial grounds in Palmerston North in 1998 – the highest award for a [then] amateur breeder.
Comment: A winner on every count, a personal favourite.

This stunning hybrid tea rose was bred by Rob Somerfield of Glenavon Roses Ltd in New Zealand in 1996, but didn’t reach Australian shores until 2008. A hybrid of ‘Deep Secret’ and ’Old Port’, Blackberry Nip was Somerfield’s first commercially-released rose. According to Somerfield, the flower takes its name from an old fashioned liqueur, very appropriate given its lineage!

Now a hugely successful rose-breeder, Somerfield attributes his success, in part, to Blackberry Nip.

“If I hadn’t had Blackberry Nip and then had a follow up [Kaimai Sunset] that was also accepted well I may not have made it. It’s almost unheard of that a breeder’s first rose is a big success.”

The gorgeous colour of the flowers is complimented by Blackberry Nip’s unusual silvery-grey leaves and stems. With roses usually growing as single blooms on long stems, Blackberry Nip is a perfect choice for those wanting to buy or grow cut flowers.

Blackberry Nip also comes as a climbing variety. At the NZ Rose of the Year in 2013, Somerfield won best climber and most fragrant for Climbing Blackberry Nip, a sport of Blackberry Nip. The flowers of the climber are slightly larger than the bush rose but still develop on long stems which grow vigorously. The rose was released in 1998 by Rob Somerfield, New Zealand and was imported to Australia. Reading the processes involved in achieving roses of excellence such as this, one has the utmost respect for these breeders.

The Blackberry Nip bush is thorny, but the thorns are particularly easy to remove. Rob Somerfield insists the most important aspect of a rose is good health, so it follows that Blackberry Nip is very resistant to disease

Blackberry Nip is one of our favourite flowers, and, whether you’re buying flowers for a bouquet or a plant to grow at home, we think you’ll love it too.

The purple heart collection are our selection of the best of the best roses.

They must have all 5 characteristics essential of a rose of excellence.

  • stunning colour
  • perfect shape
  • beautiful perfume
  • hardy in Queensland conditions
  • last more than a day without blowing open


These are the roses we most highly recommend for your garden based on our experiences in rose far

Please note as with everything in nature colour varies. The colour of this particular rose may vary from deep mulberry, stunning cerise pink to deep violet as the photos displayed will indicate. The rose is an award winner with stunning form, disease resistance and hardiness in all soil conditions. Her perfume is a true strong rose scent. One of my very favourite roses.

Thank you so much to everyone who liked, commented and shared on this beautiful rose posted on our facebook page last year. I do hope you enjoy her magnificent colour and perfume as much as I do.

$1 of every purchase will go to the “Thank you for your Service” campaign helping to prevent suicide in young services personnel. Please enjoy this rose and the pleasure it gives. It has been with humble gratitude that we source and supply it to you.

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