FINALLY! A plant survived. Shannon has eaten or torn apart all my cacti & soon the snails will destroy this hyacinth.  Still, I was very happy to see it bloom for the first time =)

It appears that my purple heart plants might survive  too.

We’re not planting a garden this year but hopefully we CAN grow some grass out back. The city took away our grass last year for some reason. We had just moved here & had actually mowed the day before. Our neighbors had not though & the city took their weed-eaters to all the yards on the block & destroyed the grass =/  Then they charged my landlord $200. Craziness.  So, the next project will be planting grass seed.   Fun!