Storms fell giant sunflower

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. It wasn't my plan to use my sunflowers as cut flowers, but when the storms the other day knocked one over completely, the choice was in a vase or in the compost heap.

It knocked over or broke quite a bit of the sweet corn too. I tried to stabilise the sunflower while the storms were going on, but I only made it worse, and it tipped over and ripped itself out by the roots. I've now pinned up the sweet corn with bamboo canes, and am simply having to live with the fact that although my row of sunflowers looks less impressive, sunflowers do make great cut flowers, so the garden's loss is the kitchen's gain.