I note that Guatemala has a climate divided into 3 zones - tropical, temperate and cool, so it rather depends where you are - both these plants will be fine in the cool and temperate regions, not so sure about the tropical parts.

thank you so much bamboo. i suppose in the coming months i will have many questions as we are landscaping a piece of land we have. i would love it to be very water consciencetious.....have a great day

You too - sorry I couldn't be more specific than that in my answer.