LEGO Botanicals Tulip Bouquet Flower Decor, 576 pc.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Legos are expensive but compared to knock-off versions they have it figured out. My husband is collecting the botanical series.

I've put together enough of the botanical sets by now [essentially all of them] that there's something of a pattern either within or between each set, and you get used to how things are assembled; in addition, with these floral arrangements, there's repetition from flower to flower that makes it easier once you put together one or two of them to put the rest together. With that said, I will say that the first book is very intuitive in terms of repeating the pattern, but the second book provides a pleasant surprise and transitions to differences and how the flower petals are assembled and put together with the leaves on the stems; the nice part about this is that readjusts attention and keeps the entire process from being monotonous. I combined this set with set 40461 [tulips] and 'planted' them in a single vase; this set now fills out a set of corner shelves consisting of standalone botanical sets that each fill the built vases that come as part of the set or some glass vases that I'm using; the sets in this collection consist of set 10372 [hibiscus], set 10345 [flower arrangement], set 11501 [tulip bouquet], set 76433 [Harry Potter mandrake, which fits nicely among these stand alone sets], set 10314 [dried flower centerpiece] and three additional smaller but stand alone sets: the butterfly garden set (which was originally a gift with purchase set), set 40762 mixed flowerpot, and set 40588 flowerpot]. If I were to recommend a building pattern for those interested in building a botanical collection, I would start with some of the smaller sets such as the petite flower bouquet, daffodils, daisies, small box of roses and small box of sunflowers, then advance to the sets I described in this review, and several of the larger more complex bouquets that I will review separately