Brian Minter: Expert tips to grow bamboo

What do you do for privacy when a three storey home suddenly goes up beside you?  James Clever and his wife went to an American Bamboo Society meeting, researched some of the over 1000 different types of bamboo.
Not only did Clever learn about bamboo (which he ended up planting as a solution to his privacy problem), he became so intrigued with them that he started his own bamboo business, became a bamboo authority and was eventually elected president of the American Bamboo Society. That was