11 March 2026

Review: GwP 40916 Floral Picture Frame from LEGO® Botanicals

Posted by Tim Johnson

The lego flowers included in the botanical gwp floral picture frame

There is a LEGO® Botanicals Gift with Purchase (GwP) available now until end 16 March 2026, available with any purchases of 150 €/ US$150/ £135/ AU$245 while stocks last. Note also, LEGO® Insiders get triple points on selected sets including 10366 Tropical Aquarium, 21354 Twilight The Cullen House, 21360 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, 77078 Mecha Team Leader and 21356 River Steamboat!

Let's take a view on 40916 Floral Picture Frame to see if this LEGO Botanicals GwP is something you'd like to plant in your home.

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40916 Floral Picture Frame

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Lego Botanicals 40916 Floral Picture Frame GwP

 

The set contains no new moulds, but does have some "rare" parts in colours that have only appeared in a few sets to date. I'll mention those along the way, as they crop up in the build.


The build and elements of interest

3 instruction booklets

The three bags of parts are accompanied by three building instruction booklets. I presume this is so families or friends can build together, but be aware that bag 2 is the fun and intricate one as it contains the flowers Adjust your build crew accordingly! 


green lego base with green plants and nougat stand

Bag 1 is the most straightforward and contains the fewest elements. It creates the base, with places ready for the flowers and the frame to be attached later.

I was glad to get some Plant, Round 3 x 3 with 3 Leaves (7264) – the set contains 7 in total – although bright green (6549013) is the commonest colour of this piece so far.


blue violet lego sunflowers
  • 9x Plant, Sunflower 2 x 2 with 16 Petals in Blue Violet (6584690 | 6901)
I was even happier when I opened Bag 2 to receive my first ever pieces in the new LEGO colour blue violet. Only 3 previous sets contain this colour of the sunflower piece, and 9 is a decent quantity to have.


lego daisy, rose, cineraria, delphinium, pussy willow and camellia

Here are all the completed flowers, although in the actual build you do add them to the base as you go. The official description says they are the daisy, rose, cineraria, delphinium, pussy willow and camellia, but I'll admit I'm slightly stumped on which is which. 

Given the size of the pink ones, they must be the camellias, and the daisies are obvious. The brown stalks are pussy willow, and I guess the magenta ones are supposed to be the roses, but their relative size to the camellias seems pretty wild. The blue violet with light central ring match cineraria well, so I guess the light blue cluster on the long green stalk is delphinium – but I normally associate that with a tall column of flowers, so perhaps it is only just starting to flower? 


There are a few parts among these flowers that have only appeared in one other set to date.
  • Headwear Accessory Crown Long with Bar in White (6594848 | 25516) in the centre of the open camellia. This rarity surprised me, but I was thinking of the glow-in-the-dark variant.
  • Bar Curved with Axle End and 1 x 1 Round Plate in Bright Green (6527027 | 4042), used as the delphinium stalk.
  • Crown / Flower / Egg Shell Half in Bright Light Blue (6591743 | 39262), used as the delphinium petals.

The following have appeared in two other sets, but more than anything I was happy to have them both in one set:

  • Plate Special 2 x 2 with Bar Frame Round in Tan (7068)
  • Plate Special, 1 x 1 Stud with 3 x 3 Ring Around in Sand Green (6562752 | 7610) 

The smaller ring is very new; a 2026 mould. Tom covered the geometry of part 7610 in his review of set 11509 Flowering Cactus. Its designer, Yoel Mazur has since confirmed that – as with the Sonic ring (3917) and the rounded corners of the new windscreen on set 11376 Ford® Model T® – a clip can be placed anywhere on the curve. 



However, there are 5 equidistant special positions on the ring where the clips can be rotated, as evidenced by its use on the delphinium in this set. It's especially pleasing here as the attached crown/flower pieces (39262) are pentagonal, allowing them to nestle together neatly. (Although, my eye just twitched as I have just realised I aligned one of the five differently here. Sigh.)



The open camellia is a simpler and smaller variant of the ones in set 11503 Flower Wall. Eero was not a fan of those and neither am I, and the visibility of square elements here doesn't help.


Bag 3 comprises the frame and the single bunch of daisies attached to it. I was actually surprised by the thickness of the frame; 5 plates at some points. It's not difficult, though. 

I show some of its interior in the picture above simply because I love the look of those two sizes of corner plate together!



The frame simply slots into place into the stand, guided by the two rounded plates at the rear and that extra plate of thickness added in the centre of each side of the frame. It doesn't get locked in, so you can't lift the whole model by the frame.


Verdict

40916 Floral Picture Frame is a pretty and practical set that LEGO Botanicals fans will certainly want in their collection, although I find it less elegant than other sets in the range. Pussy willow is a lovely addition, but you won't find exciting new techniques here – understandably, for a 9+ GwP set. 


The choice of light nougat for the frame jars a little for me, but it is a wise choice – neutral enough for whatever you place inside, while retaining some hue. Of course it's an easy change to pick your own colour, with the three basic elements needed readily available from Pick a Brick or elsewhere.

When building the flowers, I was surprised just how many there are, as the bulky camellias dominate the display. They're positioned at the corners, which helps with framing, but being a small display overall, I find the composition awkward – and as mentioned, I'm not keen on the camellia design either.

Of course, LEGO Botanicals sets are all about customisation and I certainly felt greater affinity with the set once I had personalised it...

I went for the option of a vertical orientation for the frame, and this postcard of a work by my printmaker friend Matt Jukes felt appropriate – its fresh tones manage to stand out in the busy colour palette – and the subject matter turn my display frame into a window.

The orientation change meant I could bunch the flowers together a little, which I think helps a lot. I'm not keen on the inclusion of yellow in the set's palette, so I clumped the daisies together near the lime tones in the print. I joined the pussy willow into a single stalk and nestled it in with the delphinium, to better balance the rose on the other side of the frame. Note I moved the position of the jumper 2x2 tile with stud down from the top of the frame, to allow the sky in the postcard to not feel constrained by the frame.

I feel the presence of 2026 moulds and recolours and some of their quantities make this a decent enough parts pack for a small model, but not one to search out purely for that reason. 

The threshold is fairly high, but then so are LEGO set prices. Pick a Brick purchases also contribute towards your threshold, so check out our recent lists of what new pieces have been added to Pick a Brick. 

Certainly if you've been thinking about buying 10366 Tropical Aquarium, 21354 Twilight The Cullen House, 21360 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, 77078 Mecha Team Leader, 21356 River Steamboat or 76457 Hogsmeade™ Village, this is a great time as you earn 3x loyalty points through the free LEGO Insiders program.  

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Lego Botanicals 40916 Floral Picture Frame GwP

 

 

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