Having used up all of my available bench space last year to display my Botanical sets – gaining respite only by packing them up during the course of some renovations. I’m sure they will come back someday. that said, to take stress of the benches, the LEGO Engagement team kindly sent over a copy of their Flower Wall to check out. Now the idea of a lattice with a collection of flowers designed to be attached on the wall is appealling. And the system is designed to be expandable by attaching multiple lattices together – and don’t just decorate them with the included flowers, but also add in those from another set. To encourage this creativity, they actually sent me two copies of the set to play with. But more on that soon.

The set has 879 pieces and is priced at priced at AUD149.99 / 89.99 USD / 89.99 EUR / 79.99 GBP, the 11503 Flower wall is due for release on February 1 2026.

The set comes with 9 numbered bags, and an instruction book which gave a quick run over the flowers depicted in the set.

Lets take a closer look:

The elements

As you can see, there are multiple medium nougat elements – 2×8 plates, 2×2 plates, 1×8 and 1×4 technic bricks, and tiles – 2×6, 2×4 and 2×2. This is a new colour for the technic bricks. while talking of technic, there is a 2-module technic beam with cross axle. There are 12 included in this set – and this is the first time the piece has been included in a sets that is not a technic car, since its introduction in 2025.

I would like to highlight the the new warm pink colour – appearing as 6module in diameter dishes, along with the connector with bar element. The new Blue violet is also represented – in a recolour of the botanicals leaf/petal element, along with the 3 module in diameter dish. I find both of these colours remarkably pleasant to hold and work with.

Further elements are gathered together by flower type. I could go through the elements included in the set and discuss the recolours in depth, but it might be more useful to go through the included flowers, and then follow through on the way they are added in the build.

The Lattice.

The lattice is comprised of a 4×2 grid of beams made of Technic Bricks, and strengthened by tiles above and plates below. With the structure made entirely of medium nougat elements, I found variation in the tiles distracted from a build a little at this stage, however, as the lattice filled up with flowers, it was less obvious. Along the way, we attach some hanging blocks, allowing you to hang the display from the wall, while a collection od 2 module long technic beans with a cross axle attached are attached at strategic locations, to attach the flowers. There is also a technic connector or two attached diectly to the lattice.

The Blooms.

The more I look at botanical sets, the more you see similar techniques crop up for different plants. I am unsure as to whether there is a formal classification for the techniques used, but let us see if we can develop something like this as we go forward.

For the sake of clarity – I’ll look at each flower, in no particular order. Most of the plants recur in some form or another, and I think it is interesting to see how they vary things between otherwise ‘identical’ plants.

Camellia

The camellia comes in several forms in this set – a few smaller sized flowers, including a branched twig; and a larger flower. The flower is constructed around one of the relatively new circular plates with 5 spokes around it. Inner, pale nougat petals (inverse 2×2 dome tiles/boat skids) are attached using a simple plate with clip, while clips with a bar fill in the alternating 4 spaces. These are attached to a 4×4 dish, using clip with plate element attached at the centre. A white crown element goes in the centre, forming the stamen.

The first time we encounter this flower, it is branched, with technic connectors branching between bright green and green.

There are also two more mature examples of the flower. This involves a second layer, with 6×6 dishes in the new warm pink color. Debuting last month in friends, this is a beautiful shade for the outer petals. These also use a clip onto the centre of the petal, this time connected onto a small connector attached to the clip with bar. These are attached to the 2×2 plate with circumferential rail – these plates provide 8 points for elements to clip onto the outer rail, and the positioning is more exact the octagonal frame that has been around for a good while now.

The smaller bright pink petals are attached in the same way as the larger petals, making it ever so slightly different to the smaller flower. This keeps the builder engaged in the process and also demonstrates the growth of these flowers with time.

Ranunculus

Using a magenta dish as the base, the ranunculus features a collection of recoloured axe heads – we fit 18 around a dark green steering wheel, creating a layered effect with these blades. A later of 8 is added using the 2×2 round plate with octagonal frame, and after using the circular version of this element with the camellias, I can see that that round version has a great future in these botanical type builds, although its colour choices are still a litte restricted at this time. This is the first time the octagonal frame has appeared in magenta.

Mimosa

The mimosa appears in a couple of places along the build: This is built along the curved bar, with studs towards one end, and a technic axle at the other. It plugs directly into a technic connector. In this flower, that element is sand green. The flower buds vary in their attachment, including 3 stemmed elements, attached to a ring/clip; directly onto the stud or clipped onto a bar at the end, used to extend the stem. The flower itself consists of a ‘flower plate’ on top of the peony element

Clematis

The Clematis brings us an other new colour for the year – blue violet. We have a 3×3 radar dish as well as the petal/leaf element appearing in this colour. The petals are equispaced around steering wheel element, with a single stud alternating above and below the petal (1st picture in gallery). The Stamen is constructed around a SNOT Brick (studs on 4 sides), with cool yellow claws attached to the sides, and that strange ‘design plate/ tucked on the end of that brick.

There is another version of the flower that has an additional stem (the curved element described above, but in bright green), with a small bud on the end.

Dark red rose

This flower blew my mind. This is again made around the core of a round plate (black this time) with a round rail. The petals are made of dual fern elements (in dark red) seperated by a plate with a clip on the side. These face sideways around the core plate, while dark red leaf plates mounted on a clip fills the gap in between. The round plate is in fact upside down, with the Scala flower forming the centre of the flower.

This is probably the flower that surprised me the most as I put it together.

Cornflower

This pretty, pale blue flower is built around the 6 way Ninjago connector – with clips alternating between facing in (clipping on the rim) and out (inserted into holes. These clips with bars fix pale blue eggshells to the central core. Again, this is a ‘sprig’ attached to the curved bar. There are a couple of single leaf plates attached to the stem, on the stud and using a clip.

Wax Flower

The Wax flower is put together much like the mimosa, but using a bright green stem, dark red floral plates and bright purple peony elements. There is also a bright green handle element extending the stem.

Hydrangea

The hydrangea is a remarkable flower in real life, changing its colour according to the pH of the soil. We saw this flower in violet in last year’s 10345 Floral Arrangement

This set has the flower recoloured using white butterflies. It is built around stacked steering wheels, with the butterflies mounted on clips – 1×1 studs increase the spacing as the butterflies move away from the apex of the flower. – a similar technique is used in the corals in the ICONs Aquarium last year.

Having gone through the individual flowers – let’s look at how they go on the the frame:

Installing the flowers on the lattice.

Compared with the previous bouquet sets, the flowers have relatively short stems. Let’s wander through their installation onto the frame.

We start with the lattice.

Is this set Value for Money?

$150 AUD feels a little expensive on first glance for this set.

All up, a total of nineteen flowers are attached to the frame. We typically see 15 stems in other bouquets such as the 10342 Pretty Pink Bouquet as well as the original 10280 Floral Bouquet and 10313 Wildflower Bouquet. I feel the layout is well-balanced in terms of floral size and colours across the lattice.

NOW: pricing of botanical sets appears to be a little weird across Australia and New Zealand as typical”Bouquet” type sets are fairly constantly priced at around AUD99.99

So, we have four extra flowers and the lattice. In Australia, those bouquets are all AUD99.99, while the flower wall is priced at $150AUD.

Gathering the element on Pick a Brick (and substituting the medium nougat recolourings, ehe Lattice itself is priced at around$25 AUD. Unfortunately, it is going to hard to convince me that we get more flowers, as it we get more sprigs rather than full size flowers to make up the numbers. The pricing doesn’t feel outrageous, just not as good as I would like it to be. And then there is the Australian Botanical Tax.

“What?” I hear you cry. In Australia and New Zealand, most moderately sized Botanical sets are priced at 100AUD/110NZD (think your typical bouquet, tiny plants, orchid and others). In overseas markets, some of these sets are $USD60 while others are $USD50. Which translates to $AUD71/AUD85 or so. Europe/Great Britain are at least closer to the AUD exchange for the larger set (102AUD) but still have a cheaper pricepoint available. Just a gripe. I know this won’t achieve much. The Botanicals are amongst the highest selling sets to Australian adults, and there is no obvious resistance to this pricing policy at a consumer level..

Let’s get creative.

This set is designed to have a bit more creativity used than previous botanical sets: Included in the set are a couple of technic beams that will let you join lattices together in a firm fashion, allowing you to grwo your display. Multiple examples are included in in some of the images we have seen to date:

I headed off in a different Direction.

The Gardener (MOC- Brickvention)

I haven’t share’d this year’s Brickvention build on the blog yet. I received a bit of teasing at the event, as there was not a single nostalgic minifigure in sight. This was completed before I had any idea what might be coming with the Flower Wall.

The Gardener is a figure inspired by the Botanicals elements, that I built late last year. There is a little bit of Lore, if you wish…

The world is dead: Grey and barren after a long forgotten catastrophe, generations past. The soil has finally given up, dry and grey, the essence of life sucked out of it years ago.

The Gardener awakens, finding themselves once again on the surface of a landscape seeking renewal. They stand, and head towards the point where the sun lies low on the horizon, preparing for the day ahead, uncertain when their work will end…

As they walk the wastelands, the ground is renewed: grass and flowers grow in their footsteps. After an age of neglect, the surrounding soils are rejuvenated, bringing forth new life for the first time in generations. 

This will soon be a lush, verdant world, and The Gardener will sleep, only to wake on the surface of another world, with a need far greater than the last, and the cycle starts again…

Back to the Flower Wall: MOC based on 11503.

Shortly after this event, I started working on the Lattice. The LEGO Group kindly set around two copies, for the purpose of expressing some creativity. They might have expected we could put a couple of the lattices together. I failed.

And so, I created a couple of figures, one using a Technic skeleton, using the elements included in this set. The other was more or less tablescrap at the end of the project.

And so I came up with this character – using steering wheels as frames for the trunk, and surrounded them with rows and rows of radunculus axes.I attached aspects of the red rose and camellia around the hips; adding hyacinths to the knees, and corn flower variants on the arms and the blue violet clematis petals providing general cover, after I realised some of those domes might have made things look a little … inappropriate…

The main challenge I faced was trying to make the figure appear dynamic, while still being fixed within the lattice..

After mounting the figure, with around half the elements in the set used for the figure (apart from the lattice), I added a little friend

And then I added the original flowers back into the lattice. Some needed to be moved a little bit here and there.

In my mind, it’s as if the figures grew up out of the lattice, borne of the other flowers.

Over all, I really enjoyed the build, and I am really starting to enjoy the idea of experimenting with botanical elements, to better appreciate how the elements relate to each other, in creating different forms. It is as if this is a new system of building. I’ll draw the analogy of Bionicle is to technic what botanicals appear to be beoming to normal ‘system’ elements.

I appreciate that the lattice can serve as a way to display other flowers, not just those in this set. I might try this out in the near future. In the meantime, I’ll take a moment to recover from an uunexpected bout of creativity.

I’d love to hear about other Botanical inspired figure building ( I’d be kidding myself if I said that Jayfa_mos demogorchid had no influence on this concept. This might be a new rabbit hole to start falling down…

In Conclusion

While the Lattice feels a little smaller than standard bouquets, there are infact several more flowers included, as well as the lattice itself. I am not completely convinced that it represents great value for money at retail, but a desireable a gift with purchase or double insiders points might make it a more enticing option at the price.

That said, it is a satisfying build and explores the capability of the elements used in botanical builds, while provoking further creative exercises. The building experience is never dull, with ‘identical’ flowers spaced out, and subject to the occaisional variation. Happy to give this one 4 out of 5 Arbitrary Praise units.

How would you expand on the lattice design? Leave you thoughts in the comments below.

In the meantime, 11503 Flower Wall has 879 pieces and is priced at AUD149.99 / 89.99 USD / 89.99 EUR / 79.99 GBP. It is due for release on February 1 2026. (affiliate link)

This set was provided by the LEGO Group: All opinions are my own.

In the meantime:

My Reviews of the initial 4 releases from the botanicals range in 2026, and my interview with Senior Designer Theo Bonner can be found here:

• Tulips
• Peace Lily
• Daisies
• Cactus

Special thanks to the Adult Engagement Team at the LEGO Group for facilitating this Interview.

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