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.
There are considered to be three major eras of English: Old English, Middle English, and Modern English. Old English is a very different language, complete with a different alphabet. Middle English emerged after the Norman conquest of England with influence from French and other continental languages.Modern English emerged a few hundred years later with the Great Vowel Shift.The first few hundred years of Modern English are referred to as Early Modern English, which is well represented in the works of Shakespeare. The current version of English started to coalesce around 1700.odern English emerged a few hundred years later with the Great Vowel Shift. The first few hundred years of Modern English are referred to as Early Modern English, which is well represented in the works of Shakespeare. The current version of English started to coalesce around 1700.