Find a place that deals in bamboo. Its there business to know there product.
When it comes to buying plants online search the company name online. Unfortunately there is an epidemic of bad people in the trade . One of the worst is in Georgia
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Clumping bamboo is mostly tropical. Few will thrive in the US an almost none north of the Mason/Dixon. You can find some that will but the majority of non tropical bamboo is running bamboo.
Bamboo is easy to control and or kill if you understand the plant.
Read this. http://www.lewisbamboo.com/habits.html
I have Phyllostachys rubromarginata(Red Margin Bamboo)
http://www.lewisbamboo.com/rubromar.html
And 'Moso'
http://www.lewisbamboo.com/favmoso.html
Chickens have never touched them.