What are the best types of trees to grow in rocky plains in oklahoma?

Question

It is in Skiatook oklahoma if that helps. There is also a deep ravine kind of like a canyon with water in it that looks like a good place to grow things.

Answer 1

These trees are all grown in Oklahoma.

Trees for WET sites: Red maple, River birch, Bald cypress, Willow, Sweetgum

Trees for DIFFICULT (droughty) sites: Common hackberry, Winterberry, Bur Oak, Soapberry, Chittimwood, Osange orange, Lacebark elm, Desert willow, Fruitless mulberry, Japanese tree lilac

Trees for fall color: Chinese pistache, White ash, Ginkgo, White oak, Red oak, Callery pear cultivars, Red maple, Caddo Sugar maple, Tatarian maple, Amur maple

Trees for showy flowers: Saucer magnolia, Star magnolia, Golden raintree, Japanese pagodatree, Japanese tree lilac, Crabapple, Redbud (Oklahoma state tree), Flowering dogwood

Trees for showy fruit: Chinese pistache, Soapberry, Hawthorne, Crabapple, Possumhaw, Winterberry

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Answer 2

Well Tom gave quite a great answer - after you choose your tree from his list throw some mint seeds and other herb seeds in there too.  For grow cover.