Float positioning with pdflscape package

Question

I'm using the pdflscape package to create a document with several sections that need to be in landscape. I am seeing strange behavior with figure floats.

I would like to use htp for figure positioning, but I'm noticing that:

1. At a certain size (I'm guessing where the float algorithm chooses p), the float gets rotated in a strange location when it probably should fit fine in the page.

   

2. If we force t!, the float seems to fit fine, but gets placed on its own page at the end of the section (like I would expect p to do).

   

I want the appearance of #2 (landscaped image), but in the location of #1 (on the next page in the text). Is this possible?

Example code:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{pdflscape}
\begin{document}
\section{Initial content}
\blindtext[2]
\begin{landscape}
\section{Landscape content}
\begin{figure}[htp]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.9]{example-image}
\caption{The Universe}
\end{figure}
\blindtext[5]
\begin{figure}[htp]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=1.3]{example-image}
\caption{The Universe}
\end{figure}
\blindtext[4]
\begin{figure}[t!]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=1.3]{example-image}
\caption{The Universe}
\end{figure}
\blindtext[4]
\blindtext[4]
\end{landscape}
\end{document}