Instructions to Expand Your LEGO Succulents
Many of us love the LEGO Botanical Collection. Making flowers and plants from unusual and repeated LEGO elements has stretched back in AFOL history from competitions like the Iron Builder to more modern sets. LEGO’s extended line of floral décor touches upon that desired “NPU” (Nice Parts Usage) descriptor for AFOLs and reaches out to the average person’s appreciation for beautiful plants and flowers.
If you’re anything like me and have a killer thumb instead of a green one, finding plants you can keep alive is a challenge. Enter the hearty succulents! Even before LEGO produced set 10309 Succulents, I found succulent gardens and terrariums enticing. Their ratio of beauty, life, and upkeep seemed to be perfect.
Now, let us swap out the “life” category of these plants actually being alive with our favorite toy! The beauty is still there, but is now joined together with a tabletop puzzle and some cool unusual pieces.
These perfect compact and compatible little succulent garden boxes are simply begging for reconfigurations and additions. So today at BrickNerd, we’d like to offer you just that. Instructions for an additional row of succulents to add to your collection!
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In this process, a strong consideration was placed on size, color, and reality. It would have been easy to make plant-esque showstoppers that had no basis in reality and barely fit into the original model or color scheme. But we decided to stick with the schema and have our augments be just that: augments—not a new set in competition with the official one.
So with that expressed, we pursued muted colors and varying sizes. As the tertiary succulents are more sprawling in the set, our next row had to have minimal overhang in order to interlock with the previous design. And of course, we sought to use real-world plant inspirations.
The Echeveria ‘Blue Prince’ is where we started. From the original set, we have a small light orange Echeveria, a smooth petaled lavender one, and a sprawling dark red one. What seemed to be missing was a medium-sized spiked sand blue.
Next, we took a different take on Aloe Vera. If the original set can include three varieties of Echeveria, then one of the most famous succulent families can get a second look. Aloe grows in varying degrees of green and positional postures. So to balance the sand green splayed representation, we made a brighter, spikier lime green variant.
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Lastly, we needed something of a smaller profile that could tuck under the large dark red Echeveria. This provided us a nice canvas for Baby Toes (Fenestraria Rhopalophylla). It was especially nice to add in an additional amount of bright green pieces to the collection’s palette.
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I personally suggest you get a LEGO Succulent set before they’re soon discontinued. Even grab several as they are starting to decrease in price and can provide all the bases for future additions! Have fun rearranging or adding your own plants to a growing succulent garden.
I know I’ll be working on another extension row, and I look forward to sharing more instructions here on BrickNerd in the future. As always we love seeing what additions you the reader and our community as a whole have created!
Instructions to Expand LEGO Succulents
Last but not least, here are the instructions below to expand your LEGO Succulents.
As an added bonus, here is a pdf download of the instructions and a BrickLink Studio file with parts list. Enjoy!
What additional succulents would you like to have in your collection? Leave your thoughts in the comments below.
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