# Seemingly non-invasive exotic garden plants can be ecological time bombs

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Podcast: [Growing Greener](https://stenobird.com/podcast/growing-greener-439650)
Published: 2025-12-10T11:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Revisiting a conversation from August 2023 with Dr. Bethany Bradley of the University of Massachusetts, who describes how plants introduced from outside our ecosystems may remain quiescent for decades before turning invasive, and how climate change is threatening to explode this threat.

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