The garden isn’t the best representation of the rest of campus, said Ashley Allemon, a medical technology senior who has class in the halls.

“I noticed no one takes care of it; it’s just a bunch of weeds, that’s all I see,” Allemon said. “Just trash everywhere.”

The garden is part of a class project lead by students and professors to develop a themed garden, said Gerry Dobbs, the MSU Landscape Services grounds maintenance manager.

“The theme of the landscape is to represent a naturalized area found outside of an urbanized area,” Dobbs said in an e-mail.

The professors and students are in control of the garden’s appearance, while MSU Landscape Services’ only job is to keep the environment surrounding the garden clear of trash, Dobbs said.

“Each year, the students would maintain the site and we would haul the debris away from them as a courtesy support of the educational mission,” he said.

Although it is the students’ job to preserve and cultivate the area, the garden cannot be completely managed during the summer while class sessions are out and students have gone home, said Merle Heidemann, a professor whose office is in North Kedzie Hall. Heidemann also helps lead a class that maintains the garden.

“It’s gone wild,” Heidemann said. “The question is if we’re supposed to be taking care of it, how do we split it up between (MSU) Landscape Services and the students?”

The area hasn’t been managed all summer, but Heidemann said the appearance of the plants are part of the original theme — a natural garden.

“It’s a wild garden; I would have to say I like it,” she said.

With all the new agricultural updates on campus, Allemon said taking care of the Kedzie Courtyard is another essential step in upholding the look of campus.

“I know a lot of people sit out there in between classes so (the updates) could make it look a lot nicer,” she said. “Because I know everything else around campus looks nice and that’s one of the reasons I like going here.”