We bought a house last summer that has extensive landcaping and gardens. Unfortunately, the property had been vacant for at least 3 years, with a question on how well tended the gardens were before the previous owners moved out. I can't even begin to tell you how weed-infested and overgrown the gardens were/are. After days of intense gardening after the weather started to warm up this year, we found two tree peonies hidden in a section that had been completely choked out by phlox and poke weeds. We decided to move them along with two herbaceous peonies that were in a section of the garden that gets literally 4 hours of sunlight (2 in the early morning and 2 in the late evening). There are actually a whole row (about 7 plants)of the inappropriately placed herbaceous peonies still languishing in the shade.

Anyway, I know May 10th is not the time to move peonies, but we had to move the plants because we were rearranging the bed and felt we needed to in order to move on with our garden. We noticed that both tree peonies have no blooms on them. One of them is fairly large with lots of old wood, the other is pretty small. We know these have to be at least 4 years old now, so why don't they have blooms? Is it because they were choked by weeds/other taller plants? Or is it because it was located in a spot where they got maybe 5 hours of sun? They seem to be doing well with the transplant, btw. The lack of blooms preceded the transplant.

Second question: One of the herbaceous peonies is still very drooping and sad looking 10 days after the move. It has about 4 buds on them. Does this mean those buds won't bloom?