Rosa 'Imogen' - 7 August 2024

Today when I spotted these blooms of the English Rose, Rosa ‘Imogen’ I knew that I had purchased the rose only this year so that Rosemary would have never seen it. It is supposed to be pale yellow. In my garden it does not becomet yellow until it opens and has a day or two in the sun. Its lovely shape is elegant, feminine (I am old fashioned), delicate and dainty like my Rosemary was.

Wikipedia: Imogen (/ˈɪmədʒən/), or Imogene (/ˈɪmədʒiːn/), is a female given name of uncertain etymology.

Origin

It is possible that the name Imogen may have originated as an accidental or deliberate misspelling of the name Innogen, itself a possibly common Irish Gaelic name in the past, from the word 'inghean' meaning "maiden" or "girl", or a British Celtic name derived from the Latin Innocentia. Innogen is known as the name of a legendary British queen and was supposedly wife to King Brutus and mother of Locrinus, Albanactus and Camber. The form Innogen is rare. Another theory is that it is derived from the Greek, meaning "beloved child".

 Imogen was the name of a politically influential sister of Rivallon I of Dol, a contemporary and ally of William the Conqueror during the Breton-Norman War.

Imogen (also spelled Innogen) is the daughter of King Cymbeline in Shakespeare's play Cymbeline. She was described by William Hazlitt as "perhaps the most tender and the most artless" of all Shakespeare's women.