There is a cute little gingerbread shop in the Lake District that boasts a most original garden outside the main entrance; a wooden spoon garden! Apparently a shop assistant decorated a spoon and planted it to commemorate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Eventually more spoons were added and thus a tourist attraction was born. The shop now encourages locals to decorate their own wooden spoons with weather-resistant paint and enter it into the Spoon Garden Competition. The best ideas are always simple.
Details on the shop and competition can be found on the Grasmere Gingerbread Shop website.
