‘It’s a very strange idea,’ I tell David Cohen. The idea is Flower Station , on the edge of Regent’s Park, the capital’s only 24-hour physical flower shop. ‘I take that as a compliment,’ he replies. The shop never closes for one simple reason. They cannot fit all of their stock inside their small road-side premises, so have spilled out onto Baker Street, brightening up the sights of passers by with an explosion of sweetly-scented blooms.

David saw endless potential where no one else did when the petrol station below his flat closed down. ‘It was 24 hours, which was amazing because if I ever wanted milk or whatever, late at night, it was just there,’ he says. ‘It had been closed for a few years, and I had been living there and walking past it each day, watching it become an eyesore — peo

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