Ooops! Here are the before & after photos. The last is a fence with hops on August 1st.

I have a huge honeysuckle vine that needs trimming. I am wondering if an electric hedge trimmer would be an effective tool to tame this beast. Please advise if you have experience. Thank you.

The bamboo I've seen in containers generally gets shabby looking. Plants growing directly in the ground are a lot easier to keep happy looking. But n Colorado, I doubt you'll be able to grow a bamboo that makes you happy. While the above picture looks like a vine covered fence, there is no fence. It's a vine growing on a trellis. It's not tall enough for your needs, but the height is whatever you make it to be, based on the height of the posts, which are all freestanding and separate. Posts are installed the same as would be for a fence, about 8' apart. (I have them here at 10' because the sum of factors influencing me demanded it.) At each side of the post tops are large hooks and a chain connects each post to the next. (I wouldn't go any lighter than porch swing chain. No rope will work as it deteriorates.) From the chain, at 12" intervals, I ran twine straight down to the ground and tied it to a stake pounded in the ground. Plant one perennial vine for each section (between posts) of trellis. You have to pick a good drapey vine and I can't certify what would be the best for your climate. (I used Flame Vine, above, but it's for warm climates.) Virginia creeper comes to mind as one that would work, if it grows there and I imagine it does, but it's going to be rambunctious. The same for Boston ivy. (Still, these things are not impossible to control.) It's going to take a couple of years for a perennial vine to get to the point of doing a great job. Meanwhile, also plant annual vines, from seed, at every foot or two of trellis run. They're up and running in no time. It's possible to have complete coverage in a matter of weeks. And annual vines put on some tremendous flowering shows. I'd recommend moonflower vine for first choice and Heavenly Blue morning glory for second. Seeds available on Ebay. (Other morning glories, like 'Grandpa Ott,' can be invasive and never stop reseeding so I'd steer clear of them.) Anyway, this could be a good way around the problem if you play it out right. For the most part, it amounts to tall posts in the ground -- legal -- that have no fencing whatsoever attached to them. How are you supposed to be responsible for it if some gorgeous vines happen to find the posts and climb on them ...?? Of their own accord, vines are climbing on things all across rule laden, civilized America with nobody doing a thing about it! Even if trimmed down, such things are liable to climb right back up. :-) It helps if the posts have pretty tops as they must be looked at for a while. I don't have a picture of it, but every year the above vine goes through a brief period of leaf loss loss right after flowering. But even after the leaves drop, the screening is maintained because the vines themselves have formed a dense network of branching. After it has gotten thick, it looks good, too. It just occurred to me that grapes as a vine type might work out great for you.

@Jilly I love passion flower! I tried them once, but they didn't do so well. I think I would rather have something with small flowers. I'm leaning to the ivy, if I do the project. @Bumblebeez SC Zone 7 that is what I did moonflowers and blue morning glories. I think I am going to order seeds. I was reading on the Burpee site and they are annuals in my zone (perennial in zones 9 +) and probably why mine haven't re-seeded in the past is because we pull the vines down once they start looking bad (dead). ??? Which is fine. I would rather re-plant and control them. I'm going to do these in another area, not the espalier project spot.