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English language gcse aqa

Rosie had made a quick check of the unfamiliar garden before letting the children go out to
play. The bottom half of the garden was an overgrown mess, a muddle of trees and
shrubs. An ancient mulberry tree stood at the centre. Its massive twisted branches
drooped to the ground in places, its knuckles in the earth like a gigantic malformed hand.
The wintry sun hung low in the sky and the gnarled growth threw long twisted shadows
across the undergrowth within its cage. The trunk of the tree was snarled with the tangled
ivy that grew up through the broken bricks and chunks of cement, choking it. The path that
led down towards the fence at the bottom, which marked the garden off from an orchard
beyond, disappeared into a mass of nettles and brambles before it reached the padlocked
door.
How does the writer use language here to describe the garden