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The vase LEGO left out of its Wildflower Bouquet

A launch photograph sets two glass vessels on a windowsill. Their different shapes explain one of the most consequential choices in set 10313.

Inside Lego editorial · · Botanical design retrospective
Two vases of brick-built flowers sit on a windowsill, one tall and straight and the other short and rounded.
©2026 The LEGO Group. · Editorial use of LEGO Group owned photographs
LEGO press photograph featuring flowers from Wildflower Bouquet 10313 and Flower Bouquet 10280; the vases are props.

Two bouquets at the same window

In a LEGO publicity photograph, a slim, tall vase sits on two books beside a shorter vessel with a bulging glass base. Each holds brick flowers. The tall vessel gathers its stems close; in the shorter one, green stems cross visibly behind the glass. The books raise the taller bouquet further still, so the two arrangements have separate skylines even as their colors overlap.

The photograph accompanied the introduction of the Wildflower Bouquet and features flowers from two sets, 10313 and the earlier Flower Bouquet, 10280. Neither glass vessel is part of the Wildflower Bouquet. What might sound like a missing piece on an inventory list is one reason the scene works: the containers do not have to match.

The stem is a dimension, too

The Wildflower Bouquet provides sixteen adjustable stems and eight plant varieties, among them Welsh poppies, cow parsley, cornflowers and leatherleaf ferns. LEGO gives a measurement for the larkspur with its stem straight: over 47 centimetres. That figure describes one stem rather than a guaranteed height for the display. How much of it disappears below the lip of a vase is up to the arranger.

The distinction is especially visible with the fern. A leafy shape has a job to do even when it carries no brightly colored flower head: it can occupy the gap between two blooms or give the edge of the bunch a less regular outline. A group of models assembled from the same instructions can thus read very differently without any of the plants being rebuilt.

A relationship between two sets

LEGO explicitly pairs the Wildflower Bouquet with Flower Bouquet 10280 and suggests that the stems can make one large arrangement or two different ones. The windowsill photograph makes a case for the latter. From a few steps back the bright blooms read as a band of color across the window. Look lower and the glass separates them into two distinct bunches.

That leaves a role for an ordinary household object that a molded stand could never quite fill. A narrow neck determines where the stems meet; a transparent side shows the tangle that most model bases would conceal. In this display the construction continues below the flowers, all the way to the books under the glass.

Reporting checked November 11, 2026. Plans and programs can change; follow the linked organizations for current information.