I live at same river as you with same wet soils, I build 12 inches high raising flower bed with fig tree, Japanese maple , spring bulbs are all fine, Last year fall, I planted 4 testing fig trees without raising bed and 2 of them was having roots problem, so I build 2 small raising flower bed for them hoping that I can save them, Also, I use sand base top soils mix with mushroom manure and fir bark mulch, I did water test and its shows very good results to keep roots dry, Fig trees do not like wind, I have strong wind problem as well, anyway, Keep trying.