Hard work again to start soon

I'm exhausted just thinking about all that work, you're a person with bags of energy ;-)
I like new projects too, they keep the garden fresh and new :-)

Great Richard, I for one will definitely be following your progress. So make sure you keep us updated lol! I'm sure it will be wonderful in the end. Good luck and maybe you could send me a few bags of your energy lol! :o))

Just goes to prove we can all make mistakes but we can also make sure our garden changes to suit us. You have a mammoth task for just two weeks but it is leave remember - holiday time. Enjoy and Goyers are with you - in spirit anyway.

I advise lots of cups of builders tea to keep you going!!!!! Good luck with the makeover, it will be exciting to see your progress

good luck ,i hope the weather holds out for you. i will be following your progress too.

Look forward to see the progress piccy's ! Good luck. Think you might need a guiness or two !!

thanx for your comments so far,and to Scotsgran, It will not be completed in the two weeks for sure as I have a lot of dismantleing to do and undergroung pipework and cables to dig up and re-route.Also trees to chopdown and get rid of.I will also be scraping back a fair bit of earth in places to take some of the slope out of the garden.I estimate atleast a week to do this work but not sure what problems I will run into yet,this alone could take longer than anticipated
Once the areas are cleared I need to put down another base for the shed.l will try to rest up a bit now and again,atleast for a coffee or two lol.Well i'm actually off today and think it is about time I got out there and make a start.

It sounds like 2 weeks of hard labour Diydick!...lol. Hope the weather stays kind to you and I look forward to seeing the "after" pics. Good luck and keep hydrated!...:o)

like everyone said before me sounds like a lot of hard work, but good luck and I hope everything goes as planned, maybe you could blog pictures daily so we can keep up with you as the work progresses.don't over do it,

Thanx everyone,I hope the weather stays good too Dylandog and I will try to put a few pix up as work progresses Yorkshire.Well thats my coffee break over ....back to it!

Good luck - it'll be interesting to see your progress....:-))

As all here have said , Good luck, I`m sure you`ll need it with such a mamoth task ahead.
Please take plenty of pics as you progress we shall be looking forward to them.

phew..good luck with all the hard work to come,i think the lady in the first pic may need a bit of sun cream lol..

good luck with all your work , look forward to seeing it all finished, clearing trees and stumps is hard work, we did it this year to make way for pond, but all worth it ;o))

If you have time Diy can you please tell me what those lovely pink leaved with red edges plants are in your pots. Colour wise they look like coleous but they seem to be shrubby. Hope you did not overdo it today. A tip from a long forgotten gardening programme - the first time you go out to do a lot of work in the garden after a period of relative inactivity take an aspirin before you start. It saves all that stiffness we all suffer from the following day.

Hi Scotsgran,
I'm sorry I cannot tell you what the red leafed plants were.This pic was taken last year and the plants did not return.I don't think they were Coleus as they normally have a velvety look to them (I have one in another pot).These plants had very shiny looking leaves.I keep all the labels next to the plants when I get them if I'm not sure what I brought,if they don't come back I throw the label away.At the moment I have a Red Dragon (Persicaria microcephala) in the large pot which I put in there in the Spring,it's doing quite well now,If you look at last pic on here you can see it.
If anyone else can help with the name it would be much appreciated by Scotsgran I'm sure.
Thanks for the tip, I just took 2 Ibuprofen as I know I will ache tomorrow.A few weeks ago I used a tree loper to cut large branches off of two trees before I cut them down, then used a pick axe and mattock to get the stumps and roots out,it was hard work and I walked around like a gorilla the following day (hunched over cuz of back ache and I could not put my arms down by my sides,picture it lol,) and yes I did over do it lol.

I would be very pleased if someone can ID them thank you. I did say one aspirin DIY, Ibuprofen are a lot stronger so I hope they do not knock you out.

it looks like bloodleaf to me scotsgran,

I have had a look at bloodleaf on the internet Sanbaz and it describes it as an annual shrub. It could be that, which means you would need to take cuttings to keep it going from year to year, but the colour could make it worthwhile.

yes it is annual scotsgran so i guess yoyr right would have to take cuttings, lovely colours

I shall Homebird