New Jersey has the Shore. New Hampshire has wilderness ponds surrounded by granite hills and fed by sweet water cascading down rocky escarpments.

As does one Bergen County backyard. Well, maybe not the wilderness part. But if you look at it in the right angle, you could swear you were some place like Old Wilton Reservoir and not a couple of blocks off Route 17.

Which is the way Billy Temiz likes it. The chairman of Sixth Avenue Electronics wanted a backyard oasis because as he puts it “We work very hard and when you make money you want to spend money.” Six figures and change later, he can open his French doors and step out into a yard with a swimming pool backed by waterfalls spilling over a rock wall bursting with flowers and greenery.

The project, by Cipriano Landscape Design, has won awards including the Best In Competition Award Gold from the Northeast Spa & Pool Association, and the International Award of Excellence Silver from the Association of Pool & Spa Professionals. Big stuff in the pool and spa world.

“Bill gave us a lot of design freedom, and we like to be creative,” said Chris Cipriano, the company president. The project includes 600 tons of rock, which caused a little anxiety at first. “With just the stone, it looked like a quarry. But the plants softened it,” Cipriano said.

There’s about a thousand perennials in there. Nothing too exotic, though — irises, Black-eyed Susans, hostas, salvia. Cipriano worked to layer plants to match the texture of the rock ledges. “You need your masonry first,” he says. “Plants always follow masonry.”

New Hampshire in New Jersey. One way to save on gas.