Akula

I urge you to plant almost anything other than bamboo. My neighbor has bamboo in his yard close to the property line. It's now popping up on my side of the fence. I have to dig it out every year to keep it out. Neighbor has tried to remove it numerous times and it keeps coming back. Highly invasive and super tough.

Don't fall for the "clumping"/'non-clumping" story. Its very similar to the namwa/blue java story. At best "clumping" just exands at a slower pace and worst case you get "non clumping" instead of clumping.

I understand your problem but I don't think bamboo is the solution. Sometimes you just back into another problem.

Good luck!