After last week’s reveal of the 11501 Bunch of Tulips at the Chinese International Import Expo, another three Botanical sets in the 2026 lineup have been revealed.
These sets will be released on January 1, 2026, and cover the range of sets we are becoming accustomed to seeing in the Botanicals Range: a small cute bouquet, a potted succulent and a traditional indoor plant. Some sets are aimed at adults, while some aretargetted at younger builders. Read on for more.
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Today, Branko take a look at the final, and smallest, Botanicals set due for January 2025 release. While this set was provided by the LEGO Group:
LEGO has provided us with 30701 Field Flowers polybag… no, not polybag, a baggy of sorts. All opinions are our own. When I heard this set was coming I was ready for a rant about polybags being plastic and LEGO was supposed to phase out plastic packaging etc etc etc, and then this bag arrived: a paper bag. Rant over.
For years, polybag has been the popular name for small LEGO sets packaged in these little plastic bags made from PolyPropylene (PP) plastic (category 5), hence the name ‘Poly-bag’.
This will be a numbers game. How many times will each flower fall apart during construction? How many times do the leaves fall of when putting it in a vase? And how many times do we see the ‘x’ in the instruction manual for the lovely 10342 Pretty Pink Flower Bouquet (AU$99.99/£54.99/US$59.99/€59.99) ? The LEGO Group kindly provided this set for review, but all opinions are our own.
The first flower bouquet release surprised me with how different and fresh it was. Since then four bouquets have been released; Roses, Wildflower, Flower and now Pretty Pink. Incidentally they are all still available for purchase at time of writing (please consider the referral links provided here). One key aspect of these bouquets is that like a regular flower bouquet, they do not come with a vase which means you tend to get more flower for your money than with some of the rounded botanical sets.
Follow us to explore what this bouquet offers, and if the numbers stack up at the end of our short counting journey.
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One of the most popular ranges for adult newcomers to LEGO has been the Botanical Collection which has now broken free of its ICONS co-branding. Today, four new sets have been revealed. First, there are the 10343 Mini Orchid (274 Pieces) and 10344 Lucky Bamboo (325 pieces). Both are due for release on the 1st of January 2025. Together with last year’s Chrysanthemum and Plum Blossom, they make up the ‘Four Gentlemen.’ These plants are frequently depicted together in Chinese Art. These sets both retail at $AUD49.99/€29.99/£24.99/$USD29.99
There are also two of the more traditional bouquet/flower arrangements. Set 10342 Pretty Pink Flower Bouquet has 749 pieces and will be released on January 1st 2025, priced at $AUD99.99/€59.99/£ 54.99/$USD59.99. We will need to wait for February 1, 2025 for the 10345 Flower Arrangement. It has 1161 pieces and is priced at $AUD179.99/€109.99/£94.99/$USD109.99.
Since they were first revealed in the closing days of 2020, the Botanical collection continues to attract new adults to the mysterious world of LEGO building. They were certainly high on the list of sets that seed some of the most imaginative alternative parts usage in any retail set, even if there is the slight ‘cheat’ of being able to recolour elements to create the desired effect.
It might still be the closing days of August, but before we know it, it will be October, and the Christmas specific stock will be released. This year, there are two new additions to the Botanical Collection with a holiday bent: a Poinsettia and a wreath. Both sets are now available for preorder, in preparation for release on October 1 2024. The 10370 LEGO Icons Poinsettia will have 608 pieces and be priced at € 49.99/ $USD49.99 / £44,99 / AUD 99.99, while 10340 LEGO ICONS Wreath has almost 1200 pieces, and has a recommended retail price of €99.99/ $USD 99.99 / £ 89,99 / 169.99 AUD. Read on for more Details:
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In recent years, one of the most successful of the LEGO Group’s adult-focused subthemes has been the Botanical Collection. Featuring an unprecedented amount of neat parts usage while keeping the pricepoint reasonably affordable, this theme has captured a new audience for the building brick. To say nothing of the increased cries of “That’s not LEGO®!” when people come and look at the display shelves. Today, the company officially unveiled the latest two sets in this series LEGO®Chrysanthemum (10368) and the LEGO® Plum Blossom set (10369). These two sets take the aesthetic sensibilities of the Orchid and Bird of Paradise and shrink them down to a sub-$USD30 ($AUD50) pricepoint!
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After the release of the LEGO® Icons 10329 Tiny Plants earlier this month, today, we see the second major Botanical set for 2024 revealed:10328 Bouquet of Roses. Arriving just in time for Valentines day, the set promises a while slew of intriguing recolours and neat parts usage. This 822 part set will be released on January 1, costing $99.99AUD/59.99 EUR / 54.99 GBP / 59.99 USD /24990 HUF / 499 CNY / 79.99 CAD.
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When the first Botanicals sets were released at the start of 2021, the world was taken agasp. Not only was there a bonsai tree covered in frogs, but also a Floral bouquet that needed a second look to confirm its LEGOness. jump to the future: Last year we saw an orchid and some succulents added to the mix. These models have now been on display in our living area since initial construction, and catch the eye of LEGO Fans and non LEGO Fans alike. Even my parents comment favourably about them! We even had a lot of people contribute designs for vases for their flowers a couple a years ago – I was amazed by some of the responses we had.
And now there are another two sets scheduled for release in early February… just in time for Valentines day. The sets are designed to be built on your own, or with some help from your special friend. This could be an ideal first date activity as shown in a video shared by the LEGO Group on its social channels a year or two ago.
First we have 10313 Wildflower Bouquet with 939 pieces: It brings us some spectacularly bright colours, and varied blooms: this is an eyecatching design.
Next we have 10314 Dried Flower Centrepiece – With 812 pieces, this is an exploration of earthy tones and a muted palette, but still bringing us some unique explorations of neat parts usage.
Read on for more pictures and the offical press release:
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The new botanical Collection debuted in January 2021, and exceeded expectations for introducing a new range of LEGO sets, designed for display around the home. Bringing us 3 sets – The Floral Bouquet, Bonsai Tree and Bird of Paradise Flower – all suffering from ‘hard to getness’ in their first few months – the LEGO Group has now revealed two more sets for release on May 1, available to preorder from 15 April…just in time for Mothers’ Day in some countries (Australia included).
The new sets include an Orchid, designed by Mike Psiaki, and a selection of different Succulents, brought to us by Anderson Ward Grubb, lead designer on the Floral Bouquet.
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This year, we have seen the launch of the LEGO® Botanical Collection – a range of sets aimed at adults, who may or may not have previously considered building a LEGO set as a way to spend their money or time. The Floral Bouquet and the Bonsai Tree have been perpetually out of stock on LEGO.com since early January, although these early issues seem to be improving, with stock starting to appear on the shelves of Bricks and Mortar stores.
I really enjoyed putting the previous sets together: the techniques, and unique parts usage made both sets exciting to build, and provided a building experience quite unlike any other that I had previously gone through. I was delighted to be able to have the opportunity to look at the next set to be released in this series.
We have a Bird Of Paradise currently flowering in our back yard in suburban Melbourne – hardly a tropical environment – and I was excited to see how this LEGO version would stack up next to it.
The set itself again features that distinguish the distinctive black a cardboard box of sets aimed at an adult market with a picture of the finished model on the front. On the reverse we see an indication of the actual model size, as well as several details of the finished model.
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