i deadhead my day lilies every day and I'm careful to cleanup the brown leaves under the plants. On a garden tour yesterday - mostly master gardeners - some of the gardeners had let the seed pods develop and some had deadheaded as I do. I noticed that the ones who had let the seed pods develop had no brown leaves around the bottom. Had they just cleaned up perfectly? Had they been wrong about not deadheading? Or is there some sort of connection between not deadheading and not having all those stringy brown leaves around the bottom?