Unknown Plant

Another cool morning, but no frost today. Spotted these wonderful coloured flowers in a field alongside the lane…the sun was just catching them through a gap in the hedge…there were a few ‘spikes’ like this but this was the most colourful. They are growing where there was little patch of sunflowers, at the edge of a crop field. I don’t know if they are wild flowers or something planted deliberately.

Added an extra shot…this is how footpaths and crops should coexist..I have respect for this farmer….