Our bees have produced some premium honey this season from the sites around the hills surrounding the south east of Melbourne. Creamy light coloured blackberry and clover honey from the Koo wee rup swamp and Swamp Gum ( Eucalyptus ovata) from the hills in Upper Pakenham. Mahogany Gum ( Eucalyptus botryoids) and Messmate stringybark ( Eucalyptus obliqua) are strongly flavoured medicinal honeys which have nutritional value for human health.