LEGO Botanicals 10328 Bouquet of Roses is an excellent example of why this is the LEGO Group's best theme right now.
Roses are red, they are made of LEGO, they are fun to build, and last forever. It sounds obvious to say, but Valentine’s Day is sorted if you pick up a bunch of roses. Specifically, LEGO Botanicals 10328 Bouquet of Roses.
Release: January 1, 2024 Price: £54.99 / $59.99 / €59.99 Pieces: 822 Minifigures: 0 LEGO:
Keep it simple, keep it real
Coming in at £54.99 / $59.99 / €59.99 and 822 pieces, 10328 Bouquet of Roses is a fine example of where the LEGO Botanicals theme really began to grow in prominence during 2024 and – in our opinion – sits as one of the most creative, interesting LEGO themes for 2025, across a variety of sets.
The reasons why didn’t necessarily begin last year with the release of 10328 Bouquet of Roses, but it’s one of the first sets from LEGO Botanicals (having split from LEGO Icons into its own theme at the start of 2025) that perfectly captures everything that the LEGO Group brilliantly understands to make such creations work – keep the idea simple, focus on realism.
Earlier Botanical sets were guilty of leaning too hard into chasing the gimmick of using recoloured and unusual pieces in unexpected ways to create new flower and plant effects. Sometimes these worked, but other times they would pull focus and not allow for the wider effect to really take hold. If you use a purple pirate’s hat, sometimes all you can see is a purple pirate’s hat.
Yet somewhere along the way the theme switched paths towards realism and has not looked back since, releasing excellent set after excellent set, with 10328 Bouquet of Roses one of the first and foremost examples of this from last year.
‘A satisfying flow’
10328 Bouquet of Roses offers three different ways of building a rose, four times each, serving up within the one set three very different but equally engaging and interesting ways to build out the flower head – and with different lengths of stem too. As mentioned by the designers of the set in the instruction book, this is a build that is designed to offer ‘the perfect balance between challenging techniques and a satisfying flow’, and that’s very much the case.
Each of the three designs of flower is unique and clever to put together, in a way that holds your attention without asking anything of you that is unreasonably fiddly or, worse, too repetitive to the point that it becomes boring. Of course there is an element of repetition within a set that offers four identical copies of three builds, but such is the quality and pace of how they come together (building two at a time too) that you hardly feel the effect, which is likewise helped by a LEGO build that does all sorts of things with what feels like a limited palette of pieces. That is to say, some utilise new parts, others are attached or completely built upside down, and others are clipped on and carefully folded in.
Unique and artistic
In all, it makes for one of the most unique and artistic LEGO experiences you can have at the moment, be that for novices and casual LEGO fans still getting to grips with higher-level LEGO sets, or for AFOLs who feel like they’ve built every type of set there is. Such a LEGO experience stays with you and serves as reward itself and enough value to justify the price of 10328 Bouquet of Roses.
But it doesn’t have to, because the end result is equally as beautiful and attention-grabbing, offering a realistic and permanent interpretation of an icon of Valentine’s Day that there’s no dismantling these after, or ever taking them down from display. Like real roses they are eye-catching, beautiful and symbolic, and unlike real flowers they’ll last as long as you want to display them, which for how interesting they are to put together or how real they look when built may be a long time indeed.
10328 Bouquet of Roses is the first example of LEGO Botanicals’ switch-up in focus towards a new standard of creativity, matching engaging LEGO building with a keen focus on realism, all the while keeping the beauty and fascination of real-world flowers at the forefront.
Our honest opinion: 10328 Bouquet of Roses is perfect for Valentine’s Day and perfect for any time, offering any sort of LEGO fan something new, something real, something truly beautiful to build.
This set was provided for review by the LEGO Group.
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