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BigBill said: If you are sure about there not being enough sun to bloom peonies, putting them in containers does not improve the amount of light. It seems logical that that may be a reason for you to hold out hope that they will flower.
Think about dragging containers around the yard chasing sun that is inadequate to begin with.
Sounds like to me you won't have flowers, just a sore back.

Actually, I'm willing to do that. Follow the sun around the garden if it will give me peonies that will bloom. That's not the problem, it's wintering them over in pots in zone 3.

It's not that the sun is "inadequate", it's that it doesn't stay long enough where I have peonies and it's the same with the rest of the garden. Oddly enough, I am growing daylilies for the first time in the same conditions despite the fact they require full sun and they're doing very well.