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Growing in the rill by the roadside just along from our house are these unusual flowering plants with their big broad green leaves and bright orange flowers.

Their tall stems rise up towards the sky reaching almost two metres in height. On each are several evenly spaced green pompoms.

From each pompom explodes a series of little orange flowers which turn the green bud ball into a fiery orange one.

As each individual orange blossom drops,  a sculptured green ball is left behind with little hollow tubes like mouths agape, where the blossoms had once been.

I found a variety of insects including assasin bugs, ants and lady beetles all crawling in and out among the blooms.  I have no idea what the plant is.  Is it an escaped garden flower or a weed? And where have the seeds come from to produce this bed of beauty?

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