The first thing people see when they come to your home isn't your new flat-screen TV, or the gleaming hardwood floors in your dining room, it's your landscaping. Before visitors even get out of the car, those first impressions are starting to form. Let your landscaping say something about your fun loving personality – go for the garden flamingo!

Garden flamingos are those charming lawn ornaments that first arrived on American lawns in the late 1950s and have been delighting home owners and visitors alike for a half a century. Typically made of molded plastic, garden flamingos add a sense of whimsy other garden ornaments, such as bird baths and benches and garden orbs, simply can't match. Who doesn't smile when they see a tastefully landscaped yard accented by one or more of these adorable pink garden flamingos?

From the color to the gracefully arching shape of the bird itself, garden flamingos are the perfect way to showcase your lighter side. Whether you're adding a splash of vibrant pink to a desert landscape in Arizona or using these little charmers to break up the symmetrical lines of neatly trimmed hedges and perfectly manicured lawns in New York, garden flamingos turn boring landscapes into the unexpected. All while letting family, friends, visitors, and passers-by know that the person who lives inside the home has a sense of humor.

Going beyond the garden gnome, the garden flamingo instantly makes a statement that the homeowner knows how to have a good time. It says -- Inside lives a person who not only can laugh at himself, but can embrace the somewhat kitschy. A home's landscape featuring garden flamingos prominently displayed tells the world, “Life's too short not to have fun!”