It produces edible fruit, and its oval leaves may be purple, bronze, red or silver. The flowering plum tree (Prunus Ã blireana), USDA zones 6 through 8, is one of the most striking trees available for landscaping. A fruitless variety used for ornament or screening, it not only produces purple ovate leaves but showy pink flowers in spring or winter. Both trees take full sun to partial shade and moist soil in a variety of pH levels and types.
2. Dialects of Old English. Early Old English was not so much a language as a group of related dialects brought to southern Britain by Germanic invaders from the continental homelands during the fifth and sixth centuries AD.
After the 9th century, Old English was influenced by Old Norse. The Old English period is arbitrarily considered as ending in 1066, when William the Conqueror conquered England, and Anglo-Norman, a relative of French, replaced English as the language of the upper classes.he Old English period is followed by Middle English (12th to 15th century), Early Modern English (c. 1480 to 1650) and finally Modern English (after 1650).