We found this brave flower on Bergen Street near Fourth Avenue. You hang in there, baby.

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Here’s another massively big, late summer Brooklyn sunflower.

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[Photo courtesy of vaduzuvunt/GL Flickr Pool] This is a Brooklyn morning glory captured at an undisclosed location by frequent GL Flickr Pool contributor Vaduzuvunt.

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[Photo courtesy of June Carter Cash Peep/GL Flickr Pool] We’ve had photos of these sunflowers on Union Street near the Gowanus Canal before, but they are endlessly fascinating to us. We like the angle in this pic.

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[Photo courtesy 66 Square Feet] These are Easter Lillies growing on the grounds of a Brooklyn Heights church. 66 Square Feet blogger Marie Viljoen, who contributed the photo, explains: “These lilies (Lilium formosanum or Formosa Lilies [native to Taiwan, ex Formosa, blablabla], usually known in the States as Easter lilies) are growing in the grounds […]

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This gorgeous sunflower is all the more so because it comes from Banker Street in Greenpoint, which can be a pretty desolate place in terms of flora, but here it is.

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We like the way these flowers on Ainslie Street in Williamsburg sort of blend nicely with the painted brick behind them.

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[Photo courtesy of jplpagan/GL Flickr Pool] Our photographer, jplpagan, calls this a “sunflower with Brooklyn attitude.” We strongly believe it to be a Carroll Gardens sunflower.

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[Photo courtesy of 66 Square Feet] The Gowanus sunflowers are looking great these days. This image comes from 66 Square Feet blogger Marie Viljoen. She writes: “My favourite (and everyone’s?) garden on Union at the Gowanus Canal. I have photographed it in the spring but have never seen the legendary sunflowers until now…I give a […]

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[Photo courtesy of jplpagan/GL Flickr Pool] These gorgeous flowers come from Carroll Gardens, where there are many, from the roving camera of jplpagan via our Gowanus Lounge Flickr Pool.

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This flower and discarded carton of Corona go together quite nicely. The images comes from Grand Street iin Williamsburg.

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[Photo courtesy of F. Jasmin Adams] Our Carroll Gardens Correspondent passes along this image of a rather fascinating neighborhood moth that’s hatched in the hot weather in the spirit of our on-and-off focus on natural Brooklyn things.

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This image comes from the blogger behind 66 Square Feet. She writes, “This lovely lily, probably Lilium henryi, one of three, is on the north side of Wyckoff between Court and Smith.”

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This is a sunflower growing on N. 11 Street near Berry in Williamsburg, which is not a particularly verdant swath of Brooklyn. We particularly like the way the color of the sunflower blends with the construction equipment in the background.

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[Photo courtesy of Deborah Matlack] We do love our Brooklyn flora and this flat rose from the Cranford Rose Garden captured on a rainy day by GL Contributor Deborah Matlack is gorgeous, just like the rose garden itself.

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[Photo courtesy of jplpagan/GL Flickr Pool] Here is some Brooklyn flora from Red Hook courtesy of frequent GL Flickr Pool contributor jplpagan. For a previous Red Hook scene, click here.

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[Photo courtesy of Adrian Kinloch/Brit in Brooklyn] This bit of gorgeous flora comes from Red Hook courtesy of Brit in Brooklyn blogger and GL Contributor Adrian Kinloch.

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[Photo courtesy of Deborah Matlack] Given that the weekend now ended wasn’t an ideal beach weekend, GL Contributor Deborah Matlack says that she and her camera were diverted to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden for some shooting of photos. This lovely pic of a lotus at the BBG is one of the results.

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