Advice - itsa mite magnet, so watch for that particular pest. It looks like there probably was some overexposure to the sun (the white on the leaves). Keep it in a fairly cool spot (60-65*). Use a soil that allows you to water copiously to flush the soil and then let it get fairly, but not completely dry before watering again. If you water that way, fertilize every 2 weeks with about a 1/4 recommended dose of a 3:1:2 ratio soluble fertilizer for the winter, then go to a 1/2 dose when you move the plant outdoors into shade, where it will be much happier. In fact, if it's warm enough there now, that's where I'd site it. Do what you can to keep the humidity north of 45-50%. Ivy can be temperamental indoors. Al

"First year it sleeps, seconds year it creeps, third year it leaps" isn't a fairy tale. I like it. Don't get me wrong. But I have learned that stuff has to be controlled, so plant it in an area you can envision it as a solid carpeting. Then decide how to keep it there. I moved back to my family home a few years back after it sat unlived in for several years. I had no grass. I had ivy. In fact I had ivy up to the roof, that along with Virginia Creeper, which literally encircles the house. It has taken so much effort to just get it contained enough to try and have grass (it's hazardous to trip over the ground vines) and I try now to keep it just under the front windows. I do find myself trying to root every piece that gets ripped up because I just can't bear to lose a pretty plant. They are easy to keep going - find a section already wealthy with roots, try the water jar method or just take a nice piece and lay atop the ground, secure with a pin, water and wait for those ground roots to develop. I have decided the only way to get my conscience off my back when I have one of these big clearings (say for instance when you are seeing mice and snakes at your front windows and doors, is to put the big bundle on some parcel of ground that might be not quite so tended to, and toss them there. Something will grow. It's better than poison ivy!

That leaf looks to me as if it might have spider mites. The little brown stipples near the petiole look ominous. You can google multiple remedies but one thing which would help would be to put the plants outside for a few months where wind rain and humidity will help deter the mites. Basically ivy is a bone hardy plant, not a tropical, and indoors it is prey to mites.

There are two issues with planting English ivy outdoors: 1. In many areas, English Ivy can become an invasive weed that can cause ecological harm (for example, ivy has harmed Oregon forests ) 2. If it climbs up a building, it can cause damage to the brick or siding. If you want to grow it outdoors, I would definitely recommend keeping it in a container to keep it from getting out of control. Alternatively, I'd suggest just trading it to another indoor gardener (which you can do on the exchange page on this forum) if you don't really like it anyway. Even if you don't want to trade it for a different plant, I bet someone out there would be happy to pay you the shipping costs to get it.