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Beautify an Enclosed Balcony with Plants

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  The very first thing I noticed at very beginning when I arrived at Troy is that there are few apartments. The apartment I mean is at least six floors. People lives here with villa or country house, which is quite cozy and has more space to garden . However, there many people including me lives in a solo apartment with enclosed balcony. Before I went to college, I and my parents lived in an apartment, but we didn’t give up gardening to beautify the room.   First, you have to understand enclosed balcony is a terrible living situation to plants. Because the sun light, wind, and rain and dew are limited, so you should start with indoor plants .   Then, you have to give up most of heliophile(sun plants). What’s even worse is that most flowers with bright showy color need full sunlight like rose, chrysanthemum, sunflower, etc.   Unfortunately, the apartment when I was a child lived with an enclosed balcony, besides that, it is a very small enclosed balcony. I asked my dad

Sleep with Right Noise

  Before white noise apps get popular, I have already used sounds from rainymood as my background music when I am doing homework or meditation. The sound is pure rainy sound, you can adjust the volume of both rains and thunders, and the homepage of the website is a rain, which is continuous and endless.     Nowadays, there are hundreds of apps applied white noise for people, including tropical rainforest along the Oregon coast, water drops from a temple of Japan, Cologne thunderstorm. White noise consist of every sounds that you can image. The most interesting of white noise to me is that I sit on the chair that less than one square mater while the thoughts have thousands of miles far away from where I am.   Although it is the time that we have to keep ourselves busy, I can ’ t stop myself find a moment staring blankly. Sitting in front of the desk, and enjoying the breeze that doesn ’ t contain the off-gas. White noise creates a world that I can stay with myself. I read