Hortensia del Prado (d. 1627) was a Dutch noblewoman and horticulturalist whose garden in Middelburg was featured by the poet Jacob Cats.

[3] Courten and del Prado lived on the Lange Noordstraat in Middelburg and a neighbour was the poet Jacob Cats.

[1] Del Prado was one of several enthusiastic horticulturalists in Middelburg in the seventeenth century and plant-swapping was part of social life for the wealthy there.

[4] Del Prado had built the garden in 1613 and it was large enough for a 'hundred' fountains, which also held fish and were supposedly powered by the Rhine, as well as a wooded area and a meadow – all within the middle of the town.

[5] Cats featured the couple's garden in his 1624 poem Houwelick, praising its fruit "from distant beaches" and the rare flowers "without any name".