Texas fruit growers are facing a difficult season due to a combination of inconsistent winter chill and damaging spring freezes.

It’s a place where anyone can come and pick peaches right off the trees. Kids like Levi Ritch seem to like it. “It’s fun 'cause all you do is just grab a peach. You put it in your bag ...

On closer inspection, the center of each flower — the pistil — had turned pitch black, as if charred. The unseasonal spring ...