You are only the 2nd person I’ve ever known that grew bamboo on purpose. It does make a great screen and barrier to noise, which is what my neighbor has done with it. He blocks the view and the noise from the interstate.
Back in the mid-70’s, our landlord, and another tenant on the property grew a large patch of bamboo in one corner of the yard. Pretty stuff, and practical, too.
It was a very effective screen for their joint pot garden. LOL We had a large planter box next to our unit’s door, and I had to watch it like a hawk every spring, because a former renter had dumped their seeds in it, and volunteer marijuana seedlings look very much like tomato seedlings, until they start getting a couple of sets of true leaves.
That’s what happens when you live in a ‘student ghetto’ in sunny southern California.