LEGO 2026 Botanicals sets offer an experience you can't get anywhere else

LEGO Botanicals continues its rich vein of form with a handful of new additions arriving at the start of 2026.

As a theme, Botanicals isn’t always about showing off or aiming for that wow factor that others are perhaps sometimes guilty of chasing. Instead, this is a LEGO theme that allows realism and technique to guide the way. That has been the case with all of the theme’s releases of the past couple of years in particular that have offered up some of the most satisfying, relaxing, and unique LEGO experiences we’ve had the pleasure of enjoying in that time.

Much like in the appreciation of growing and tending for real life plants and flowers, LEGO Botanicals has perfected the craft of offering the very best brick alternative through quiet immersion and subtle mastery of the LEGO pieces and the techniques that are possible.  

And in January 2026 arrives another small collection of LEGO plants that continue to deliver something that only this theme can. You may not have built a LEGO Botanicals set before, nor have the inclination to put together something that on paper isn’t quite as immediately enticing as something like a modular building or a giant Iron Man. But there’s something in LEGO Botanicals that you don’t get elsewhere, and any one of these sets has it.

11508 Daisies

Release: Jan 1, 2026

Retiring: Dec 31, 2028

Price: £12.99 / $14.99 / €14.99

Pieces: 133

11508 Daisies is the smallest LEGO Botanicals set for January, coming in at only 133 pieces. It’s a quick build to put together, but one that is no less effective than any of the bigger sets in the theme. Indeed, for a small display on a nightstand or bookshelf, 11508 Daisies is really quite perfect. The printed element for the centre of the larger daisies does feel a little like cheating, but it’s very much needed to create that all-round realistic effect of the set.

11509 Flowering Cactus

Release: Jan 1, 2026

Retiring: Dec 31, 2028

Price: £24.99 / $34.99 / €29.99

Pieces: 482

11509 Flowering Cactus will certainly test your patience when you realise that x2 in the instructions actually means x4, and x4 could really mean x8, twice over, but this is a really cute and very effective LEGO build that perfectly captures the unique aesthetic and appearance of mini cacti. The flowers on top are beautifully caught in LEGO form, and in a way that you don’t expect to work until you finish the build and your eye just immediately accepts.

There’s something to be said for the pot this plant is built in too – there’s a fancy upside down technique in there that is just so silly to include, because you can’t tell that anything special has happened if you are just glancing at the set, but it is really quite excellent. Subtle mastery here.

11504 Peace Lily

Release: Jan 1, 2026

Retiring: Dec 31, 2028

Price: £54.99 / $49.99 / €59.99

Pieces: 474

LEGO Botanicals’ mid-range sets are a little dull on face value this year – 11504 Peace Lily is simple-looking plant with small flowers and large green leaves, because that’s the plant it is. The LEGO design team have certainly worked to jazz this up with another very clever build for the pot, whilst the plant itself is remarkably interesting to piece together, all things considered.

This one may struggle to pull in a wider audience for the dryness of it, but it rewards those who build it and it does blend very well into the background of any room it is put in.

11501 Tulip Bouquet

Release: Jan 1, 2026

Retiring: Dec 31, 2028

Price: £54.99 / $59.99 / €59.99

Pieces: 576

10328 Bouquet of Roses was so good that LEGO Botanicals pretty much re-released it in 2025 with 10374 Bouquet of Pink Roses. We’ve also had 10347 Petite Sunny Bouquet and 10342 Pretty Pink Flower Bouquet recently – bouquets work for the colour and variety that they offer, and 11501 Tulip Bouquet is no different.

Whilst it is just tulips here, just as with the two rose bouquets we are treated to several different techniques to build the flower heads and stems. And as with the other bouquets, 11501 offers bursts of colour throughout, thanks to a broad palette included. We could have had a bouquet of just one or two colours, but the multi-colour approach helps this one stand out, both amongst an already competitive bouquet selection for LEGO fans, and wherever you place it on display once built.

These four LEGO Botanicals sets continue the theme’s excellent creative drive towards realism whilst offering some quite unique and genuinely insightful LEGO builds. The subtle approach that the theme takes to showcasing what it can do may seem counterintuitive and it may cause one or two of you to overlook such sets as the above, but such hidden LEGO rewards are the ones that stay with you long after you’ve built them, and every LEGO Botanicals set has stayed with us for just that reason.

These LEGO sets were provided by the LEGO Group for review purposes.

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