Qiongzhuea Tumidinoda. Another bamboo from China which grows to 6 Metres in the wild and the culms (up to 3cm in diameter) are used for walking sticks in Sichuan. It is noted for it's very unusual inflated culm nodes (see smaller picture); sometimes refered to as "Dinner plate nodes". Very vigourous in UK climates; best grown in a large container.
Pleioblastus Distichus. Small bushy bamboo with very small leaves (largest ones 45mm x 8mm) and total bush height of only 20cm. Mature culms very thin and buff/grey in colour.
You don't have to have a large garden to grow bamboo, as this picture above shows. This plot is just 10ft wide by 4 ft deep and contains 4 large species at the back and 4 small species at the front, as well as a few small ornamental grasses. The larger species bamboos are separated in the ground by thick plastic dividers, and the smaller species are in pots hidden below the surface of the soil. When, evetually the plants become too big for their individual plots they can have the outer regions cropped and used for divisions for growing on.