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.
In fact, Old English has not just died out. It has been a process of many years in which the language has changed.There was no time when all of the sudden the language changed from one to another but it was a process in which the language changed from Old English, to Middle English to Present Day English.eport Abuse. Old English didn't exactly die out: it changed over the years, just as all spoken languages do. There are even noticeable differences between the early Old English texts (8th century, say) and later texts (e.g. 11th century).