[em2vn]

You control it by moving it down in the spring. It doesn’t continue to send up shoots throughout the spring and summer.
My family enjoys the bamboo we’ve planted in our back yard. It makes a wonderful privacy fence.
I not sure bamboo is a grass. Native North American sawgrass is a grass but I don’t know about bamboo.

[B-Chan]

Bamboo is indeed a grass — a member of the true grass family Poaceae. It's related to rice, believe it or not, which is also a grass.

[dennisw]

Bamboo is grass..it is jointed like grass