A desert is not just sand. It is land that gets very little rain. In the Negev, rain falls only a few times a year - and most of it comes in just a few weeks. The plants there have learned a clever trick. They live their whole lives in those few wet weeks, then drop seeds that wait, sometimes for years, for the next rain.
The most famous flower is a deep red anemone, called kalanit. So many of them bloom together that in some places the ground looks like a red carpet. People drive for hours to see it. There is even a yearly festival called Darom Adom - 'Red South'.
Animals turn up too. Bees, butterflies and beetles wake from their winter hideaways to feed on the flowers. Birds fly down from Europe, stopping in the blooming desert to rest on their long journey south.
The blooms last only a few weeks, then the hot sun returns and the desert goes brown again. The seeds wait quietly underground for the next rain - which might be a few months away, or might be a year. Desert plants are some of the most patient living things on Earth.