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.
Old English (Ãnglisc, Anglisc, Englisc), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers probably in the mid-5th century, and the first Old English literary works date from the mid-7th century.