LEGO Pretty Pink Flower Bouquet: Ideal Valentine's Day Gift

As Valentine's Day approaches, the traditional gifts of candy and flowers are always a safe bet. However, if you're looking to impress your special someone with something a bit more unique, consider the Pretty Pink Flower Bouquet LEGO set. This innovative gift requires no watering to stay fresh—just your time to assemble and a vase to display it in.

LEGO Botanicals Pretty Pink Flower Bouquet

$59.99 at Amazon | $59.99 at LEGO Store

The Bouquet is a part of LEGO's Botanical Collection, which was introduced during their lifestyle rebranding in 2021. LEGO has been expanding its appeal among adults by designing sets that beautifully integrate into living spaces.

We Build The LEGO Pretty Pink Flower Bouquet

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Instead of relegating LEGO sets to storage or struggling to find space on desks and tables, adult LEGO enthusiasts can now hang them on the wall. For the Botanical Collection, these sets can also serve as charming window sill decorations or elegant centerpieces.

The Pretty Pink Flower Bouquet comes in six bags, with an additional seventh bag containing long rods for the flower stems. There are no stickers or printed tiles, and the set includes a printed instruction booklet.

LEGO encourages builders, especially for these crossover sets, to use the digital instructions available online. These digital guides allow you to rotate and zoom in on the builds, making the hobby more accessible, especially if you're new to adult LEGO or hesitant about its complexity as a Valentine's Day gift.

Each bag contains parts for different flowers, including daisies, cornflowers, eucalyptus, elderflowers, roses, ranunculus, cymbidium orchids, a waterlily dahlia, and a campanula. The instruction booklet provides brief descriptions of each flower in English, French, and Spanish, offering a bit of educational content alongside the building experience. Here's the description for Cymbidium, also known as a boat orchid:

"Cymbidium orchids are documented in records from Confucius' time, around 500 BCE, making them the oldest known cultivated orchid species."

And here is the description for Dahlia nymphaea, commonly known as the waterlily dahlia: "Symbols of elegance and grace, the decorative waterlily dahlia blossoms unfold like a luxurious firework display."

When you think of LEGO, you typically imagine the interlocking bricks that snap together. However, the flowers in this set are constructed using hinges, where one piece connects to another at a single point, mimicking the natural extension of petals from the flower's center. This set introduced me to new building techniques, such as folding rose petals upward in an overlapping pattern, which required careful planning to ensure the petals did not occupy the same space when folded.

There are potential pitfalls to watch out for. Incorrectly placing a petal can lead to a chain reaction, misaligning the flower several steps later, necessitating a redo. Attention to detail is crucial, as the orientation and spacing of each petal are vital.

Traditional LEGO builds start with a foundation and support structures before adding details. In contrast, the Pretty Pink Flower Bouquet has no underlying structure; it's purely aesthetic and extremely fragile, designed for display rather than play.