because it's nature left to do what nature does best. :)

And they seed themselves too, I have a few clumps in a wild area that never get any attention.......

No need to dead-head at all. It is done purely for appearances sake.

And t stop the bulb putting energy into producing seeds when it could be feeding itself… that said Bulba and I don't deadhead - would take too long. For that matter we do not remove the dead flowers from our 50+ rhododendrons!

that is strange - as I was deadheading yesterday it suddenly came to me that no one deadheads the ones on the roadsides, what! have we nothing else better to do Snoopdog. lol. than wonder why these things are so. lol. It is true though nature manages herself very well without all the pampering we do. I didn't deadhead in the middle of my big border last year as the ground was so wet and it gets so compacted if I walk on it when wet and the flowers are amazing this year. So am only deadheading the ones I can reach without much hassle this year. Maybe it could be said or maybe not that great minds think alike. lol.

Not idea… Bulba and I just recognise we have more to do than we can cope with so… no deadheading!

in gardens we tend to grow 'hungry' plants or too many plants and the soil cant always manage to have enough nutrients, so dead heading makes sense. In the wild/hedgerows etc the competition between plants is less and the leaf litter from the hedge provides the nutrients for the bulbs.

we also like the garden to look neat and tidy too :o)

after the cheeriness of the 'host of dancing daffodils' (cf that Wordsworth poem we once learnt as schoolchildren!) waving in the breeze of early Spring... nothing is more depressing, don't you think, than their dead remains - so I deadhead (if I can reach them) if only on aesthetic grounds - but I agree Nature copes perfectly well without us (grrr, says she, rooting up bird-sown laurel bushes...)