I was going to ask if you found one! I'm glad you did. When it recovers, you might look for someone who can graft some of it onto the sour orange. BTW, I found some sour oranges at a gourmet store, and am going to make orange marmalade with it. These are the Seville oranges. I suggest you remove the little fruit that it has on it. It really, really needs to spend this year growing roots and strong branches. It has a long way to go to recover from neglect, and needs all of its energy to go into that. It is recommended for citrus anyway, not to let them produce fruit the first year for just that reason. Yes, I know it's hard, I've had to do it with 7 citrus so far, and am planting 3 or 4 more this year.

I am considering doing my own pool as well. I found Pool Warehouse, they build and send the walls and all items needed for quite a reasonable price. They have kits to pick from but also do custom. of course the one I have in mind needs to be custom and I am in the process of getting a quote. Here is their website so you can take a look. https://www.poolwarehouse.com/small pools/ Also click on the dig sheets for layouts. I will be interested to see how much the one I want is going to cost compared to the standard kits already in production I have attached a photo of the pool I am interested in installing, no shallow end, steps right into deep water.

myredfiveo - the sun/splash shelf is probably 10 foot wide (at the widest point) and about 6 feet into the pool area. We wanted a larger than normal area to accomodate 2 lounge chairs (and a nice play area for our little one while we wait for her to learn to swim. Decking is mostly rainbow pea gravel, but with flagstone inlays (2) and a light colored Oklahoma flagstone border around the edge of the deck to dress it up. Of course our first choice would have been some kind of natural stone, but actually pleased with the look. Hopefully get pebblesheen acid washed and polished today to start filling with water - pictures above are nice, but I can only imagine what it will look like with water and balanced chemistry!

Explore the drainage problem by looking OUTSIDE of your own lot lines and get an understanding for how water is supposed to move through the surrounding neighborhood. It travels from one person's yard into and adjacent yard on it's ways downhill. Where does your yard fit in the downhill path relative to your neighbors' yards? When water doesn't drain out of a yard, it's sometimes because its path is blocked by something a neighbor has created. Look outside of your fence and see if that is the case. Where is the drainage problem showing up? Is there a desire for privacy? It looks like one neighbor's house has a looming view of your deck. If I lived there, I would want screening from their back deck and upstairs window. Also in the view are some less than pleasant features ... I would want screening from seeing roofs and bits of neighboring houses that show up in the background. Being as you are in Houston, you could incorporate some tropical flavor into the scene. Hate to say it, but one of the most disconcerting aspects of your back yard is the fence itself. Cheapest way to spruce it up would be paint. Or it could be screened with any length of suspended trellis, but this means working vines into the scheme. I wouldn't bother with lawn grass. By the time you allocate space to some of the nicer things you could grow, there'd be so little room left over for grass, it wouldn't be worth the bother of maintaining it. Check out perennial peanut 'Ecoturf. It blooms for 10 months out of the year where the weather is warm. I have it as a lawn and mow once a year in early spring with a motorless reel mower to tidy up in the Spring. It's low growing and can be walked on so would be perfect for your small space. I'm not intending that you take the picture literally. What It's showing are suggestions for: 1. How to extend the screening height of fencing without smothering the ground floor space with bushiness. 2. Placing the herb garden at the right end, adjoining it to the garden at the side of house. 3. An approximate limit on the number/size of plants that will fit comfortably in the space. 4. A foreground of low growing groundcover ... a lawn substitute. 5. A way to link all the disparate objects with a second, slightly taller groundcover. 6. Instead of hiding the electrical utility box, paint it to your liking and use Plumbago at each side, adjacent to fence. 7. Plant larger sections along the fence with a group of shrubs/perennials or a single specimen of grass, shrub or perennial ... whatever fits without crowding something adjacent. I didn't show it, but single tree location could be a group of Pindo Palms for some tropical flavor. It's one of the shorter feather palms. Pretty cold hardy. Also did not show, but if you want shade for patio consider a small tree placed at the open (right) end. Does Golden trumpet (Tabebuia chrysotricha) grow there? Or for really fast shade, a tight cluster of Papaya (grow from seed.)