answer:How tall, how long and wide, and how visible from street is the fence? Do you have brightly coloured blooms in your garden that you can echo? Or would too many strong pure tones compete with/or distract from the garden? My favorite color for a wooden fence is Forest Green, since it complements the surrounding pines and hemlocks. When I took a furniture refinishing course, the guru said to paint wood w. flat paint and then cover with polyurethane. And word has it that the old-fashioned milk paint is indistructable. Might be expensive, however.