The Best LEGO Plants and Flowers for Building a Botanical Collection

You get all of the zen aura and none of the pruning. The LEGO Bonsai Tree comes with a buildable pot and stand, and tiny bricks to create the impression of pebbles. You can also swap out the green leaves for pink blossoms, depending on your preference.

The set itself looks awesome, but LEGO fans have found some really cool alternative builds for it as well. You can potentially turn this set into The Great Deku Tree from The Legend of Zelda or Treebeard from Lord of the Rings. It's surprisingly versatile for a $50 set.

Each succulent comes in its own pot, allowing you to arrange them as you please. There are nine succulent-inspired plants in total, and they're split into three instruction booklets, allowing multiple people to tackle the build together.

The orchid build strives for accuracy; LEGO advertises that this set has 5 leaves at its base and 2 wandering air roots. The stems and petals are adjustable, so that no two LEGO Orchids look exactly alike.

If you've ever tried to keep a real orchid alive then you already know the value of choosing the LEGO route.

The LEGO Wildflower Bouquet is all about proper arrangement; after you build it, you'll need a glass vase to properly display them. The bouquet has eight different flowers: cornflowers, lavender, Welsh poppies, cow parsley, leatherleaf ferns, gerbera daisies, larkspur, and lupins.

It doesn't get more classic than a dozen roses. And the build is less repetitive than you might think; this LEGO bouquet includes roses in full bloom, roses in the process of blooming, and roses budding. Buy and build these for someone you love, they make a wonderful Valentine's Day gift and usually go on sale around that time every year.

It's nine plants from all over the world, housed in terracotta pots. Some of them are easy to build and some of them are difficult, which makes this an ideal set if you're building as a family. The plants are false shamrock, jade plant, laceleaf, pincushion, pitcher plant, prickly pear, red sundew, succulents, and Venus flytrap.

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It's only two twigs, but LEGO went all out with them. The LEGO Cherry Blossoms come with both white and pink buds, allowing you to personalize the build to your tastes. And they're only $15, which is a steal when it comes to LEGO pricing. This is one of the best cheap LEGO sets you can buy right now.

The LEGO Poinsettia sits in what appears to be a woven basket. There are lots of LEGO flowers with rounded edges. But the Poinsettia, by comparison, has lots of points and sharp ends. The red petals and create a bright, visual pop.

We built this set for Valentine's Day, and we were impressed by both its color palette and its various building techniques. The set includes nine different plants and flowers: daisy, cornflower, eucalyptus, elderflower, rose, ranunculus, cymbidium orchid, waterlily dahlia, and campanula.

The LEGO Pretty Pink Flower Bouquet is currently discounted on Amazon, dropping to its lowest price ever ahead of Mother's Day.

The most expensive and elaborate Botanical Collection set to date, the Flower Arrangement has large blossoms of baby’s breath, bouvardia, camellias, hydrangeas, peonies, lilies, and ranunculus. You mount these vividly colored flowers onto a white pedestal vase. The vase can accommodate other LEGO Botanical sets in case you want to personalize your arrangement further.

Most of these LEGO Botanical sets require you to supply the vase or other means to diplay it publicly. But the Flower Wall includes a buildable trellis, which allows you to easily mount it on the wall of your choice. This set includes camellias, clematis, ranunculus, roses, a hydrangea, cornflowers, mimosa branches, waxflower branches, and big leaves. And if you buy more than one, you can connect them to create even more elaborate flower arrangements.

A interesting variance from the plants and flowers we've gotten thus far, the Woodland Mushrooms set includes fly agaric, fibrecap, earthstar, chanterelle, bonnet, and oyster mushrooms, as well as two plants: bracken fronds and autumn crocuses. It has brown bricks representing dirt along its base, giving the set a more natural, lived-in feel.

The LEGO Botanicals, especially the more recent ones, usually come in buildable pots. But these Water Lilies, befitting their type, come in "glasses" that appear to be half-filled with water, thanks to the clever use of differently tinted, transparent plates. You build two of them, one white and one pink, and they're perfect for a window sill or a personal desk.