Vojtěch Holubec (Czech Republic)

Commitee memeber

 Plants of historical Tibet (Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau)

The talk will present the new book „Flowers of Tibet-Qinghai Plateau“ (historical Tibet) by V. Holubec and D. Horák. The best plants from Tibet, Kunlun, Qinghai, Sechuan and Hengduan Shan

Vojtěch is a researcher in agricultural plant Gene bank and past National coordinator for plant genetic resources. He has been interested in alpines and botany since his 11 years. He loves mountains and he travels extensively to photograph plants and wild habitats, in the world. He got obsessed in crevice rock garden construction, he constructed main rock gardens in the show garden of Rock Garden Club Prague (RGCP) together with Ota Vlasak and Zdenek Zvolanek  and they got Gold medal for RG construction in the International Horticultural Exhibition IGA Erfurt, Germany. He headed shows of the RGCP and now he is the President of RGCP. He runs seed nursery. He published 3 books on RG construction with Ota Vlasak,  The Caucasus Flowers with Pavel Křivka and The Tian Shan and its flowers with David Horák. He was awarded by Lyttel Trophy by AGS in 2010.