LEGO Botanicals 11503: A Flower Wall of Parts and Possibilities
/Today’s guest article comes from Rylie Howerter, one of the LEGO fan community’s foremost color and materials enthusiasts. Her color guide is one of our go-to LEGO references here at BrickNerd, and you can follow her on Flickr, Instagram and Patreon.
A Wall of Parts and Colors
Two copies of this set were provided to me by The LEGO Group. All opinions are my own.
January 2026 brought us several new LEGO Botanicals sets, and here’s yet another one! 11503 Flower Wall, releasing February 1st, feels like a real flagship model for the theme this season, with a great variety of flowers and display potential. Although it’s not the first set to include the two new colors for 2026 (430 Warm Pink and 431 Blue Violet), it does feature them heavily, with several new recolored parts.
As a MOC builder myself, I tend to look at sets primarily as parts packs, and this is a generous one. Let’s look at the new/exclusive recolors included!
1 White:
5 Brick Yellow:
5x 6576903 | 7068 PLATE 4X4, W/ HOR. 3.2 SHAFT, NO. 1
24 Bright Yellow:
22x 6594861 | 5904 PLANT, NO. 2
37 Bright Green:
124 Bright Reddish Violet:
151 Sand Green:
2x 6545174 | 42156 ANGLE ELEMENT 135 DEG. [4]
154 Dark Red:
212 Light Royal Blue:
21x 6591743 | 39262 CROWN, NO. 1
222 Light Purple:
20x 6596883 | 35394 ROUND PLATE Ø32X6,4
226 Cool Yellow:
8x 6594899 | 10187 CLAWS (+1 extra)
283 Light Nougat:
2x 6594897 | 7610 RING 3X3, W/3.2 SHAFT, NO. 2
312 Medium Nougat:
430 Warm Pink:
431 Blue Violet:
Framework for Success
The build begins with the trellis, composed entirely of Technic bricks, plates, and tiles in Medium Nougat (with several Technic connectors tacked on). If you look closely, you may be able to see the color variation in the trellis tiles here… this gets mostly covered up in the final build, but the tiles and especially the Technic bricks do feel a bit cheaper and more translucent than normal. No such issues in the rest of the build.
The build does get a little repetitive, as (I assume) most Botanicals sets do. Lining up the 52 axe heads takes some concentration, and my fingers were a bit dry and sore by the end of the second wall set. That’s probably not how it was intended to be built, though; I think breaking sets like this up into multiple sessions is probably better for casual fans, especially.
At least the instructions do distribute the different flower types a good amount: there are only a couple instances where you’re building the same flower twice in a row, and never three times. I bet I would have enjoyed it more if I took a more meditative approach over my usual speed-building. :)
Room to Grow
The back of the box hints at how this set can be rearranged and combined with 10342 Pretty Pink Flower Bouquet, but it is honestly underselling its potential to be expanded. If you buy multiple if 11503 Flower Wall sets, the Technic trellis structures can connect together, allowing builders to create their own arrangement and shapes. If you have enough money, time, and nails, you could in theory fill an entire wall with them!
The set essentially creates a system where brick-built flowers can become modular and arranged however you like—even across LEGO Botanicals sets. Here are just a few things you can do with a second copy of the 11503 Flower Wall:
Make an L shape, a V, a checkmark, or even a large frame!
Make a square, or tessellate to fill a wall…
…or make a long narrow strip. This might look good as a springtime table centerpiece! It can get a little visually repetitive, but it’s meant to be modular, so you can move flowers around and add in plants from other Botanicals sets to suit your own creative tastes.
Let’s Talk Color
I assume anyone who knows me is waiting for me to talk about the new colors here, but since they've been out for almost a month, I don’t have much to say that hasn’t already been said!
New Elementary did a great overview of the colors and their place in the palette, and I have individual pictures of Warm Pink and Blue Violet on my own Flickr stream (where I post a photo of every individual LEGO color ever, as an ongoing research project and discussion space).
Blue-Violet is very similar to 219 Lilac, which was retired 20 years ago after only being used in a handful of parts. I have seen a lot of people reacting to Warm Pink as if it’s an unnecessary addition, and while it’s nowhere near the Sand Red they may have been hoping for, I see it as opening a lot of possibilities, particularly when paired with Vibrant Coral. Vibrant Coral was always difficult to use since it was such a unique hue — in some ways, Warm Pink feels like a lighter, desaturated version of Vibrant Coral, and they are used together to great effect in the Ideas Love Birds set.
In the Flower Wall, it’s used with Light Purple to create a much more naturalistic Camellia flower palette than Light Purple would on its own. I expect we will see a lot more of both new colors in the Botanicals theme, in particular, going forward.
A Wall of Possibilities
For builders, the real strength of 11503 Flower Wall is how open-ended it is. The trellis structure, modular connections, and carefully chosen recolors make this set feel like a starting point instead of just a display model.
It’s easy to imagine multiple copies of this set being rearranged, expanded, or quietly cannibalized for future projects… qualities that should give the set lasting appeal for builders creating colorful MOCs, event planners looking for flexible decorative elements, or collectors chasing completionism.
However you end up using it, as-is or expanded with multiple copies, the Flower Wall is clearly meant to be adjusted to whatever you can think of, and I look forward to what creative projects come about because of it.
Is the LEGO Flower Wall a display piece for you, a parts pack, or a starting point? Let us know in the comments below.
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