Wooden garden fences and garden gates are an essential and elegant home improvement that offer a certain grandeur to your property. How a wooden gate ages, whether you can paint on them, the ease of installation all depends on the kind of wood you choose for your gates. Ideally, softwoods are the most popular timbre used for building wooden garden fences and gates. Don’t let the name fool you, softwoods, in particular, the common redwood or ‘Scots Pine’ are extremely sturdy. Likewise, you can also pick Red Cedar as your raw material for wooden garden gates.