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Artful spaces, rooted to place
Coming Soon to 28 Main St. Warkworth, Ontario

10/15/2026

We absolutely adore this gem of a home, coming soon to MLS in Cobourg.
Fieldstead did the kitchen many moons ago and we are still smitten with it. We love old houses 🤎

10/10/2026

Happy Thanksgiving from Fieldstead. 🍂

Feeling especially grateful this year for good health, family, our three senior dogs, the woods that surround us, and the wonderful community we get to be part of.

There have been a lot of new beginnings this year, and so much to look forward to. We are grateful for the people who have supported us, welcomed new ideas, and made room for us to grow.

Wishing everyone a beautiful Thanksgiving weekend, whatever that looks like for you. We hope there's time for some good food, fresh air, and the people and places you love.

10/08/2026

Meet Wolfgang Nabert , the other half of Fieldstead.

Wolfgang is our builder, carpenter, problem solver, and the person who brings so many of our ideas into the physical world.

His work spans fine carpentry, cabinetry, masonry, and construction, with a deep appreciation for good materials, thoughtful details, and things made to last.

He has an almost obsessive eye for detail and an uncompromising approach to craftsmanship. No shortcuts, no cutting corners. His work is precise, considered, and heirloom quality in every sense.

He’s also wonderfully unique, incredibly funny, and completely dialled in when he’s working. He has a way of figuring things out and making even the most complicated ideas come together beautifully.

One of the things we love about working together is how differently we approach things. MR is often thinking about atmosphere, planting, and how a space feels. Wolfgang brings an understanding of materials, structure, and how things are made.

It’s a combination that has shaped our work and allowed Fieldstead to evolve beyond gardens alone.

We’re looking forward to sharing more of his craftsmanship here, both indoors and out.

10/03/2026

I’ve been thinking about fall garden cleanup, and how much nuance there actually is to it.
I like cleaning up the garden in fall. I also leave a lot behind.
The asters are still flowering. Coneflower seedheads stay standing. Grasses, stems and anything with good structure are mostly left alone. Leaves can settle into beds and under trees, and plenty of the garden is allowed to slowly collapse on its own.
But, I cut back the hostas. I cut back the lilies. I don’t particularly enjoy dealing with their wet, collapsed leaves in spring. I’ll remove foliage where powdery mildew or disease has been a problem. And sometimes I cut something back simply because, to my eye, it has finished for the year and I want mine or the clients eye’s to land somewhere else.
There’s real ecological value in leaving the garden standing through winter. But I don’t think ecological gardening needs to become a purity test.
Gardens are habitat, but they’re also places we live with and care for. There can be room for both.
I actually love this time of year in the garden. Cooler days, cutting some things back, leaving others alone, moving through the beds slowly and noticing what worked and what could do better with a relocation. What to add come springtime. Where to edit. Where to refine. There’s a rhythm to it.
Maybe that’s the approach; pay attention, leave what has something left to give, clean up what makes sense, and do what feels good in your own garden.

-Michael

09/28/2026

it is always so nice to drive by to see something we built years ago holding up so beautifully.

an ornate yet restrained custom cedar arbor, and a pine fence given a natural treatment to speed up the weathering process. years later, it’s settled into this beautiful silver grey.
we like materials that get better as they age.
more from this gorgeous Port Hope heritage property soon

09/22/2026

somehow, it’s the fall equinox already.

we’ve been busy and having a good time. apparently this is the year for replacing rotting thirty-year-old decks. not glamorous, but necessary.

there are new gardens in the works, drawings being finished, and lots of sourcing for fall planting and hardscape. and a lot of walking around properties; listening, observing, figuring things out. somehow there’s always something new to notice, even in places we’ve walked a dozen or so times.

the light is changing. the grasses are starting to turn. goldenrod is going to seed. and it’s aster season, which might be one of my favourite signs that fall is here.

a few things we’ve been seeing and working on lately.

09/09/2026

Natural stone. Both as found objects and locally sourced in.
Limestone steps and retaining walls built around moss covered boulders and field stone found on site.
Fitting the different materials together so the finished work feels as though it has always belonged here.

Stonework by Wolfgang.

09/05/2026

Choosing trees, one at a time.
I was back at the nursery this week tagging trees for our fall planting projects. It's something I've been doing for years whenever the project allows.
Two trees can have the same name and size on paper and be very different in person. Form, branching, structure and overall health all matter — as does the particular garden and place the tree is being chosen for.
So whenever possible, we go to the nursery and select our trees and larger specimens individually.
It's a small part of the process, but an important one.

09/01/2026

We’ve been a little overwhelmed, in the best way, by the response to Fieldstead over the past week.

Thank you to everyone who has followed along, shared the new page, sent a note, recommended us to someone, or simply offered a kind word. After many years of working as Michael Rose Gardens and Noble Custom Carpentry, it means a great deal to have this next chapter received so warmly.

There is a lot still taking shape, and we’re very happy to have you here as it unfolds.

Michael-Rose + Wolfgang

08/26/2026

I should introduce myself properly.
I’m Michael-Rose, the co-founder, creative director and garden designer behind Fieldstead.
Fieldstead is new, but the work behind it isn’t. For years I worked as Michael Rose Gardens, and before I ever imagined having a studio or building a larger practice, I was simply trying to make gardens that felt good to be in.
I learned by doing and observing. By planting a lot of plants, moving a lot of plants, watching what thrived and what didn’t, and returning to the same gardens year after year. My work has changed a lot along the way. I’ve become more interested in restraint, repetition and plants that really want to be where they’re planted. Less interested in filling every space. More interested in what a garden might become over time. Never worried, never panicked.
I still love the whole process — drawing and planning, wandering nurseries looking for the right plants, laying everything out on site, planting, editing, and coming back later to see what happened.
The last slide is a planting plan from the Michael Rose Gardens years. Looking at those old drawings now, I can see how much has changed, but also how much of what became Fieldstead was already there.
Fieldstead feels like the natural next chapter. A broader practice, and one that gives us room to think about the garden, the landscape, the home, and the things we build within it as a whole.
I’ll introduce Wolfgang next. He’s a pretty important part of where all of this is going.

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