We have had a clump of Black Bamboo, (Phyllostachys nigra) it hides a neighbors shed, in our garden in UK for years.
Easy to control, highest it has reached is about ten foot but average stems are 6-8foot.
It requires little or no maintainance, we just cut out poor and broken stems annually.
You treat it as a grass, which it is, but we never feed ours, so expansion is very slow.
Grows green then stems turn black.
Stear clear of the fast growing and 'travelling' varieties.
They are a menace!
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