The first sets in the Botanical Collection arrived in 2020, starting life as a subtheme of the ICONS theme, aimed at adult builders. After proving its enduring popularity, the collection has spun off into its own theme and now includes elegant model sets aimed at younger builders. The latest of these sets is the 10347 Petite Sunny Bouquet. With 373 parts and a collection of elegant pastel flowers, it has just been released in time for Mother’s Day.

Let’s take a closer look…

What’s in the box?

Opening the box reveals four bags, and two instruction manuals. The set is ideally designed to be built by more than one person: bags one and three essentially contain the same elements, while 2 and 4 are unique to each manual.

The manuals open up with a quick summary of the flowers to be built in each.

Here are all the elements from within the set.:

There are a few classic palm leafs, white daisy elements, and new light purple canoe paddle blades.

There are a number of Technic elements: connectors- linear and #4 in green – a sixteen module long axle in bright green.

We also have a nifty new bright green branched connector. AS well as a curved element, with an axle connection on one end and bar at the other (in sand green.) this has been seen before, but I think it’s the first time I have had access to it in this colour.

Historically, I have really enjoyed the creative element use in the botanical sets: We are now seeing these sets fill up with a lot of specialised botanical elements, in conjunction with nifty recolours of scallops, steering wheels and canoe paddle blades. Let’s see how they all come together.

The Build.

The set is designed to be built by two people in parallel – making it ideal for a mother-child (mother’s day is not far away) activity, or a date. The build opens with several identical builds, before taking the builders in different directions.

Build together

We start each of the instruction books by building Billy Buttons: A gentle introduction to SNOT Building, we take a brick with studs on 4 sides and surround it with stacked floral elements. A simple stem made of bars and handle elements completes the look.

Next we move onto the Blue Bells, the curved sand green bar gets come clips attached. The blue flowers are attached to a 3 stem element which plugs into the clips.

The cleopatra fern is a quick and simple build, using end to end connectors and hinges with good old fashioned palm leaves. The leaves are secures to a stud/pin connector using the small stem with leaves.

Yellow Yarrow uses the new y-connector and macaroni piece to bring a curved branch, allowing two flowers to be attached. These flowers are based on the 4 pin gear, with small bars connecting to leaves. The pin holes in the end of the bars accomodate small flowers, previously seen decorating the hairstyles in LEGO Friends.

At this point, our instructions diverge:

Build apart

Book one moves on to a daisy:

Again, we use the y-connector, with simple bouquets with floral elements on the end.

Next, the peony: The flower grows around a steering wheel – scallops around the edges, and building ther centre up with plates and barbs.

The second book offers unique experiences with the tulip and the Gerbera daisy. These larger flowers also use the new y- connector, but to hold the flower on a different angle to the direction of the stalk.

The Tulip’s interleaved petals are made of a modern variation of the shoulder paudrons, from the Star Wars Buildable Figures of almost a decade ago.

Finally, the Gerbera – this flower’s centre takes its shape from a steering wheel, brake hub and some smaller floral elements. These are surrounded by petals made of clips and canoe paddle blades. – the final result is quite radiant.

Each of the early flowers are fairly simple to build – a great icebreaker while starting a conversation or getting to know your build partner. The larger flowers in bag one are not as complicated as those in book two, but in reality, the complexity lies in the number of repetitive steps taken in their construction.

The final bouquet is light and airy – positively delightful to put together. With an appropriate amount of patience and encouragement, it should easy enough for a nine year old builder to put together.

Displaying the bouquet in a LEGO vase.

It is quite easy to display this model in a smallish vase. You can adjust the heights of the stems to get the arrangement just about set up.

I opted to build my own vase. A few years ago now, I sought inspiration from our readers to design vases for the original floral bouquet. You can see some of those examples if you follow this link.

I really liked the 8×8 round vase submitted by Dawn S, but I didn’t have any of the 4×4 macaroni bricks to hand. I did have a collection of 3×3 macaroni bricks that I picked up last year – but how could I get the stems to take on a mode regular arrangement?

I took a leaf from the book of traditional florists, who might use foam in the bottom of a pot to arrange the flowers’ stems. Here I have used a jig made of technic lift arms and pin/axle connectors. These are all able to attach to the green connectors at the base of of the stems.

From here, I mounted each flower, but a few changes were necessary: I shortened some stems by removing the straight technic connectors attached, and lengthened others. I also changed one of those technic pins for a pin/stud combination, which I could pass the stem of the billy button through. Ultimately, I added height to the gerbora, and took some away from the fern. I left the second stem of yellow yarrow out of the vase, as it was close to impossible to fit inside.

There is a degree of flex applied to some of the stems when they are close to other flowers.

I had 50 of the curved bricks, so I build the vase up to 12 layers high. As these bricks were free standing columns, I added some tiles to the top layer to connect them all together.

As you can see, this small vase is quite elegant for this bouquet. It was useful to customise the length of the stems, as well as bein able to adjust the number of flowers on the stems. as well as the arrangement of some of the flowers on the stems. Of course, there is more than one way to skin a cat, and as such, also many different ways to build a LEGO vase.

In conclusion

Overall, I think this is a sweet set, ideally designed so that you might share the build experience with a friend or family member – young or old. As a solo builder, I found the shared flowers became a bit repetitive. The use of pastel colours is bright and breezy, making me forget that winter is less than a month away here in Melbourne. The use of many dedicated floral elements removed some of the ‘what’s that now?’ experience that I had with earlier botanical collection models, but there are still some cool examples of neat parts usage included in the build. Some of the flowers might be able to be more realistically rendered, but I feel there is some advantage in demonstrating that sometimes, things made of LEGO bricks are not a perfect replica of how they are in the real world.

At the end of the day, I enjoyed the build, as well as the satisfaction of being able to display it in a self made vase. It might not be for everyone, but it is half the price of the other bouquet sets on the market, and is bound to be the right pricepoint for a lot of newcomers to botanical building.

Set 10347, Petite Summer Bouquet, is on sale now, and has a recommended retail price of $AUD49.99 /$USD29.99 / €29.99 / £24.99. There are just a few days left to pick up a copy in time for mothers day this weekend (Australia).

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