OTL reloaded: leaf shine and cleaning leaves

On The Ledge | Grow houseplants with the experts

Jane Perrone

Leisure, Home & Garden

4.9 • 782 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

If your new plant has super-shiny leaves, it may have been treated with a leaf shine spray. I find out more about these products with Canadian garden writer Larry Hodgson, and discuss the best ways to clean plant leaves. Plus we hear from listener Beth.

This episode of On The Ledge was first published in November 2020.

For full show notes visit https://www.janeperrone.com/on-the-ledge/2020/11/20/episode-164-leaf-shine-cleaning-leaves

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0:00.0	Watcher, it's me, Jane Perrone. This is not a new episode of On the Ledge podcast. Let me just state that right up front. However, it is a chance to catch up on an old episode that maybe you missed, or maybe you just enjoy hearing again.
0:26.9	Episode 165 came out in November 2020.
0:31.6	Gosh, does that feel a long time ago or recently?
0:36.0	That's the weird thing about time because it feels kind of a bit of both.
0:40.3	I've picked out this episode to feature today because it feels kind of a bit of both. I've picked out this episode to feature today because it contains one of my absolute favourite house plant people. Unfortunately he is no longer
0:48.4	with us and that's one of the great reasons to celebrate Larry Hodgson whose website Laidback Gardner is still an incredible
0:56.9	source of information about houseplants and gardening more widely. I spoke to Larry in this episode
1:03.8	about leaf shine. Shiny leaves. Are they natural? Can they be achieved with artificial
1:10.6	sprays? We get right into it in this episode.
1:15.1	So hopefully this will be a pleasant blast from the past for you in the absence of any new episodes.
1:22.1	I'm sorry there aren't any new episodes. I'm still busy doing my job working at The Garden Collective as it's now called.
1:29.4	Do check out the Garden Collective and you can join for a pound if you want to check it out.
1:35.0	It's a collective of garden writers covering everything from house planty stuff from me to design from people like Tom Stewart Smith and James Alexander Sinclair to
1:46.5	floristry and herbs and edibles and loads more.
1:53.2	Show notes for a link. Oh and my piece of publicity is Legends of the Leaf is back. I have
2:00.1	self-published my book after getting screwed over
2:04.1	by my publisher. So if you are in the US or elsewhere outside the UK or wherever you are, in fact,
2:10.4	and you didn't get a copy last time, you can now buy a copy of my book with a new cover and a new
2:16.7	forward by Tony LeBriton of Not Another Jungle.
2:20.5	So again, check the show notes for details on that.
2:24.3	Right, without any further ado, here is Leaf Shine Reloaded with Larry Hodgson.
2:51.1	Hello and welcome to On the Ledge podcast.
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