About US
About Us
Invasive Plant Solutions, founded by Christian Allyn in 2016 provides comprehensive invasive plant consultation and removal services in Connecticut and Massachusetts. We take utmost care to provide the highest quality of service utilizing the latest technology and best practices. We are fully licensed and insured.
We provide our services to Private Land Owners, Land Trusts, Forestry sites, Public Land, Right-of-Ways, Institutions and Educational Facilities. At this time we do not serve K-12 Public Schools in Connecticut or Massachusetts.
Invasive plants that we have successfully remediated from properties like yours include, Japanese Knotweed, Japanese Barberry, Common Barberry, Oriental Bittersweet, Norway Maple, Russian and Autumn Olive, Honeysuckle, Multiflora Rose, European and Chinese Privet, Smartweed, Wine Berry, and much more.
Christian Allyn chose to start Invasive Plant Solutions in 2016 as a Junior at UConn because we are facing the imminent collapse of the Northeastern Forest. All throughout our landscape Invasive Plants can be seen wreaking havoc upon our natural environment crowding out native plants and displacing wildlife. This does not have to be our reality. We can choose to restore nature.
If you are interested in learning more about our services or getting started on a project click the button below.
What are invasive plants?
Invasive Plants are defined by the United
States Department of Agriculture per Executive Order 13112 and affirmed by US Executive Order 13751 as any
- Non-native (or alien) to the ecosystem under consideration; and,
- Whose introduction causes or is likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health.
Per Executive Order 13112 each state is tasked with creating an Invasive Plant Council. Each Invasive Plant Council is tasked with creating and updating a list of invasive plants for that state. To view your states
invasive plant list please click your state below:
Christian Allyn
Christian is a 2017 graduate of the University of Connecticut College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources, with a double major in Horticulture and Resource Economics.
Invasive Plant Solutions was started by Christian during his junior year at UConn as a practical means of addressing his deep concern with the damage and disruption wrought by invasive plants, both in his own life and in the larger natural context around him.
As a millennial growing up in the over-protective 1990’s and early 2000’s, Christian had few opportunities to truly enjoy playing outdoors. Although his parents built a secluded country home in an abandoned horse pasture surrounded by picturesque hedgerows, outdoor play was always restricted by the ever-present reality of vines, thorns and ticks.
Not only was Christian’s childhood play interfered with, but as his knowledge, awareness and appreciation of the world around him deepened in the aftermath of 9/11 and the arson of his hometown's iconic Canaan Union Depot only three weeks later, Christian came to see invasive plants as more than just a nuisance. Bittersweet vines, multiflora rose thorns and the ticks harbored by Japanese barberry became symbolic for him of a world and culture in decay and disarray. Native plants, by contrast, seemed to embody the heritage, peace and legacy of the land in which they had evolved together, now under siege from invasive plants on every side but waiting to be recovered and ready for revival.
Through Invasive Plant Solutions, Christian is dedicated to identifying and implementing optimal strategies for invasive plant control and eradication, and to restoring our native landscapes to what they can and should be: a natural and life-sustaining inheritance for us all.