Check out bamboogarden.com they have lots of descriptions of what you may like, there is a lot of variety out there. Go for Phyllostachys so you can get them to spread fast.

Man can you come do my yard?? I got several ten foot runners already that I have dug up.. hope your right kudzu and if I chop it will stop.. as it went under a crimson maple and I dont want to kill the maple to get it out.. I can chop where its at so hopefully it doesnt put out any more runners where I chopped... my other side of the yard all the runners stopped at the low point in my yard as water gathers there after every rain.. this rotted off all the boo so it contained it there as boo wont grow in saturated soil, it got about 6 ft from the orignial planting.. my dulcis though there is no low point.. the culms grew 6 feet tall in one week in my neighbors yard.. and he cut them all off.. which made it even harder to find it to dig it out.. urg.. I hated to delay digging it out but my body had to rest.... spent all the weekend getting it out of my neighbors yard.. so glad I have understanding good neighbors.. heard so many horror stories on these forums of bad or mean neighbors..

I found a big grove of Phyllostachys bissetii bamboo along a two lane highway passing Beedeville AR, and got owner's permission to dig up so bamboos... and while I was there, he took me to the back of his house and there was another kind of unknown Phyllostachys growing a long row about 30 feet long, he dug a small ditch about a foot deep and about a foot wide along the bamboo grove, and the strange thing is there was NOT one bamboo growing across that small ditch! I took some pictures of them and thought to share with you guys... here are some pictures of the ditch and the bamboo another pic this one taken from the other side of the grove Guess a small ditch can stop the bamboo spreading...

Kudzu - if he won't deliver that far, I'd be willing to ship it to you if you'll pay the postage ;) I remember about 3 years ago I ordered 8 mail-order Nuda. Just before they arrived I hurt my back and did not feel up to planting them where I wanted them, so I put them in a temp spot that was easy digging. The next spring I proceeded to dig them out and transplant them. Every one of them had at least 6 rhizomes going 10-12 feet out in a wagon wheel pattern. It took me 2 hours to dig out each one, as I was trying to keep as much rhizome intact, as possible. Last summer I saw an Aurea shoot coming up WAY out from the mother plant that had been there 2 years. I carefully got underneath the wayward culm and walked it out of the ground all of the way back to the raised bed border, where I snipped it off. I stepped it off at 18 feet of rhizome! This was 1 seasons growth. I chopped off the 3 feet of rhizome tip with no viable buds and then somehow, for some reason?? I planted the culm and 15 feet of rhizome in a 20 gallon pot. This year you'd never know how much rhizome is coiled up in that pot by looking at the few, short culms. Next year, I bet it looks like a jungle in there. Now I need to find a new home for it, as the dang stuff doesn't appeal to me in this climate zone.