Botanicals

Sunflower Bouquet

Six sunny faces that turn a windowsill into July, no matter the month.

Brick Rated Score

4.0 out of 54.0/5

Set 11502 · 2026

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Year2026
Set number11502

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The verdict

The finished bouquet honestly made me grin, all that cheerful yellow crowding out of the vase like the flowers are leaning toward the light.

It is one of the prettiest bouquets the Botanicals line has done, and the way LEGO staged three different bloom stages keeps the build from feeling like a factory line. My caveat is real though: it is still six similar flowers and a handful of eucalyptus, so if you want variety you will feel the repetition. Best for someone who just wants happy flowers on the desk and does not need a botanical puzzle.

Best for: Sunflower lovers who want cheerful, low-fuss decor that never wilts

The full review

What it is

This is the 2026 Botanicals sunflower bouquet, and it is exactly what it looks like: six brick-built sunflowers plus four sprigs of eucalyptus, no vase, no minifigures, just flowers you arrange yourself. What got me is how bold it reads from across a room. The blooms are big and unapologetically yellow, and because LEGO built them at three stages (one tight bud, three just cracking open, two wide and fully open) the arrangement has actual movement instead of a row of identical clones. It is one of the more genuinely attractive bouquets this line has produced, and I say that as someone who has grown a little tired of LEGO flowers.

The catch

I will be straight with you about the caveats, because they are real. This is a narrow set. Once you have built one sunflower you understand the rhythm of all of them, and even with the staged blooms you are still making six close cousins and a bit of filler foliage. Longtime Botanicals builders who love the wild variety of the older bouquets may find that thin. There is also no vase in the box, so you will be making a trip to a homewares store, and the flower heads are heavy enough that a flimsy vase will topple. At 59.99 dollars (54.99 pounds) for 686 pieces the value is fine rather than generous.

Who it's for

So here is who I would hand it to. If you love sunflowers, or you just want a cheerful splash of yellow on a desk or windowsill that never needs water, this is an easy yes and it will make you smile every time you walk past it. If you are chasing an intricate, surprising engineering build, or you specifically want the crammed-full variety of a mixed bouquet, this one will feel repetitive and you should look at the larger multi-flower sets instead. It knows exactly what it is, and it does that one happy thing very well.

The parts story

What the build is actually like, and the pieces worth knowing about.

Building it is relaxing in the way good Botanicals sets are, a bit meditative and very forgiving. The instructions cleverly break the assembly up so you rotate through the different flower types rather than grinding three identical ones back to back, which keeps your hands interested. Each bloom comes together in petal rings around a central head, and the poseable stems and petals mean the real fun happens at the end, when you tune the whole bouquet by hand and coax it into a shape you like.

The headline part is the Plant Leaf 2x6 with 2 studs, freshly done in yellow, and there are 104 of them forming the petals. It is a perfect shape for the job and a lovely element to have in bulk. There are other quiet treats too: the oval minifigure shield, the leaf on a 1x2 round plate, and the cherry piece all appear here in colors they have not shown up in before. The eucalyptus leans on recolored sand green shields and harpoon guns for its foliage, and tan cherries stand in for hanging seeds, which is exactly the kind of sideways parts thinking that makes this line fun to pick apart.

Fun facts

  • 01The set uses 104 of the yellow Plant Leaf 2x6 pieces just for the sunflower petals, and yellow is a brand new color for that element.
  • 02It arrives with no vase at all, so LEGO effectively expects you to supply your own, and reviewers warned the heavy heads need a sturdy one.
  • 03The eucalyptus filler is built from recolored sand green shields and harpoon guns, with tan cherry pieces used as the hanging seed pods.
  • 04The six flowers are deliberately built at three different stages of bloom (one bud, three opening, two fully open) so the arrangement looks natural rather than uniform.

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