Hohenheim Gardens, Botanical garden and park in Stuttgart, Germany.

Hohenheim Gardens covers more than 30 hectares on the University of Hohenheim campus in Stuttgart-Plieningen. Its oldest section, the Exotic Garden or Franziskas Dörfle, was laid out from 1776 to 1793 for Duke Carl Eugen and Franziska von Hohenheim, with around 60 scenes designed by court architect Reinhard F. Heinrich Fischer. The ensemble also includes the semicircular Palace Park, the 1998 Landscape Garden with its eight-hornbeam monopteros, and a botanical garden showing Central European vegetation history since the last ice age.

The site was established between 1772 and 1793 when Duke Carl Eugen transformed an estate into a modern garden and created the exotic plant section. This period established the basic layout that remains visible today.

The garden's oldest section is called Franziskas Dörfle, after Franziska von Hohenheim, the duke's favourite and later wife. Its Spielhaus now holds the Museum of the History of Hohenheim, with a scale model of the 18th-century garden and murals by Viktor Heideloff. The Jägerallee was planted from 1772 with poplars raised by Johann Caspar Schiller, father of Friedrich Schiller.

The grounds are easily accessible on foot with pathways connecting the different sections. Plan to spend several hours if you want to see both the outdoor gardens and the greenhouses.

The plane tree by the Spielhaus, planted in 1779 by Duke Carl Eugen and Franziska von Hohenheim, is 244 years old, has a trunk circumference of almost eight metres and was named a National Heritage Tree. Over 150 woody plants in the gardens are more than 100 years old.