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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 4084016" data-attributes="member: 26737">I've personally seen apples, pears, peaches, and cherries do well in Oklahoma. As noted above, my mom's folks had 10-15 fruit trees (apples and peaches, and, I think, pears) in their little orchard, and they produced terrific fruit. The pear tree at my folks' place produced wonderful pears, as long as we could keep my nieces and nephews from picking them all while they were still green...I had a great big cherry tree behind my house, and my eldest niece loved to eat the cherries right off of it, but drought, bugs, and an ice storm finally did it in a few years back.Pecans and walnuts are native to the state, so they'll usually grow like gangbusters. My understanding is that pecans are cross-pollinators, so they need different species of pecans nearby to put on fruit (or, I guess, technically, drupes). Fortunately, that's usually not a problem here. As noted above, pecans and walnuts can become huge, and they might decide to take up for their oak brethren after the mean things you said about the neighbors tree.My grandpa's apples and peaches never got really big (maybe 15' to the very top?). The pear at my folks' house is at least a good 20' tall (it's taller than the house), but the peach is probably closer to 15' (with a similar spread). The cherry I had was over 20' tall, but my place is heavily forested, so it was already good soil for trees.</blockquote>