patching up garden wall

Hi,

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj111/rickb_2008/100_9500.jpg

I'd like to move the waterfall and replace it with bricks so that the wall is integral.

I've removed the pond so where you see the pond now it's just flat ground. However the waterfall is still there.

How difficult would it be to brick the hole left by the waterfall? I have spare bricks but would like the same mortar colour at the joints.

Behind the bricks there is a retaining wall so the front layer is cosmetic.

I would not mind getting a brickie to do it if it gets me a matching finish with the rest of the retaining walls. Is it a particularly complicated job? How long would it take a decent brickie to do this?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

it looks to me as though the waterfall is accommodating a large chunk of of the wall and that 'inserting' bricks may not be the answer.

pitch-stone walling tends to be very brittle at the best of times so by the time you have toothed out the existing bricks you may end up with most of that section of wall around your ankles!

it may be simpler to re-build that section entirely.

if the builder is sympathetic towards the cosmetic aspect there is no reason why the mortar could not be a decent match, though it will always look 'new'.

it looks like a north facing wall with the amount of algae growth so it should blend in relativley quickly